“It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.”
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“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”
“Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.”
“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”
“The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
“Everything makes me nervous - except making films.”
“It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.”
“A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.”
“A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.”
“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”
“A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.”
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”
“Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.”
“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
“I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.”
“Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.”
“The secret to film is that it's an illusion.”
“Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.”
“The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.”
“Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.”
“Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'”
“You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.”