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“Yes, movies! Look at them �� All of those glamorous people �� having adventures �� hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves �� Goody, goody! �� It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island �� to make a safari �� to be exotic, far-off! �� But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Don't you go to the movies?"
"Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.”
― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories

“I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.”
― Irwin Shaw, Short Stories of Irwin Shaw

“Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“Everyone gets killed in the shower. Don't you go to the movies? Psycho. Dead in shower. The MExican in No country for Old Men. Dead in shower. Michelle Pfeiffer in What Lies Beneath. Almost dead in shower, or in the bath, anyway. But she did that thing with her toe and got out OD. Still the shower, though...Glen Close in Fatal Attraction. Dead in shower. John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. Very dead in shower. But never closets. I can't think of anyone shot in a closet. This is why I hide in closets.”
― Derek B. Miller, Norwegian by Night

“Like most people raised on American movies, I have poor access to my emotions, but can banter like a motherfucker.”
― Josh Bazell, Wild Thing

“The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which was born on the Frontier, the Gangster Film, which originated in the East Coast cities, and the Musical, which was spawned by Broadway. They remind me of jazz: they allowed for endless, increasingly complex, sometimes perverse variations. When these variations were played by the masters, they reflected the changing times; they gave you fascinating insights into American culture and the American psyche.”
― Martin Scorsese, A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

“I go to the movies because �� I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.”
― Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie

“In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star”
― Bette Davis

“Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions manifest when the fight is over. It’s so formulaic and unsurprising that you wouldn’t dare re-create it in a movie. All the critics would mock it. They’d all say the screenwriter was a hack who didn’t even try. This is why movies have less value than we like to pretend �� movies can’t show reality, because honest depictions of reality offend intelligent people.”
― Chuck Klosterman, The Visible Man

“In North By Northwest during the scene on Mount Rushmore, I wanted Cary Grant to hide in Lincoln's nostril and then have a fit of sneezing. The Parks Commission...was rather upset at this thought. I argued until one of their number asked me how I would like it if they had Lincoln play the scene in Cary Grant's nose.

I saw their point at once.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Weren't movies his generation's faith anyway--its true religion? Wasn't the theater our temple, the one place we enter separately but emerge from two hours later together, with the same experience, same guided emotions, same moral?...what was that but a religion?”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“Mothers of America
let your kids go to the movies!
get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to
it's true that fresh air is good for the body
but what about the soul
that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images
and when you grow old as grow old you must
they won't hate you”
― Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems

“Which is an interactive sport for our family, since Gil likes to groan over the writing and point out the plot twists ahead of time, and Jeremy tears his hair out over the historical inaccuracies, and Dad makes corny jokes, till Mom reminds us, loudly, that some people are trying to watch the movie. Then we'll all quiet down for about five minutes, until Olivia remarks that the costume designer should have dressed the star in kitten heels instead, because it's a lot harder to run in stilettos.”
― Caitlen Rubino-Bradway, Ordinary Magic

“Home is what we know we ought to want but can't really take. America is not so much a home for anyone as a universal dream of home, a wish whose attraction depends upon its remaining at the level of a wish. The movies bring the boys back but stop as soon as they get them back; for home, that vaunted, all-American ideal, is a sort of death, and an oblique justification for all the wandering that kept you away from it for so long.”
― Michael Wood, America in the Movies or Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind

“I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Hollywood now produces false entertainment: unmitigated violence on the screen; snickering, laughter in the audience.”
― John Cage, M: Writings '67��'72

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After watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of the viewer via technology.”
― Bret Easton Ellis

“No one likes to be typecast or stereotyped, especially actors. But who would know Esther Williams without a swimming pool, Bela Lugosi without a cape, or Elvis Presley without his guitar. Would we even care?”
― Susan Marg, Hollywood or Bust: Movie Stars Dish on Following their Dreams, Making it Big, and Surviving in Tinseltown

“The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You see man we are just fucking extras!! Extras in a capitalist blockbuster!~page 75”
― Winshluss, Pinocchio

“It’s funny how we think life works a certain way because of TV and movies. Most people don’t really think about how scripts are edited and how people get to practice their lines and rehearse. If one doesn’t get it right they get to redo the scene until they do. In real life what’s missing or not working only comes up when we’re going along full blast. We end up being the editors of our lives only while we’re running in real time.”
― Mark Kendrick, Desert Sons

“When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.”
― Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China

“[Rylie:] I was thinking about that short you directed--The Pier. I wondered if you had a video or a reel of it somewhere.
[Finn:] You want to see my short. Why?
[Rylie:] Color me curious.”
― Jessica Lave, Quiet on the Set: A Novel

“Now, clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any help, it knows too much already.”
― Poltergeist the movie

“In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say ‘Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!�� To which I reply ‘Well, why? It’s already a book.”
― Orson Scott Card

“Her first really great role, the one that cemented the “Jean Arthur character,�� was as the wisecracking big-city reporter who eventually melts for country rube Gary Cooper in Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). It was the first of three terrific films for Capra: Jean played the down-to-earth daughter of an annoyingly wacky family in Capra’s rendition of Kaufman and Hart’s You Can’t Take It With You (1938), and she was another hard-boiled city gal won over by a starry-eyed yokel in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). “Jean Arthur is my favorite actress,�� said Capra, who had successfully worked with Stanwyck, Colbert and Hepburn. ��. . . push that neurotic girl . . . in front of the camera . . . and that whining mop would magically blossom into a warm, lovely, poised and confident actress.�� Capra obviously recognized that Jean was often frustrated in her career choice.”
― Eve Golden, Bride of Golden Images

“What makes movies magical is not that incredible things happen in them. Incredible things happen in real life. No, what makes movies magical is they end right after the incredible thing happens.”
― Matteson Perry

“Kalo nggak nulis, ya baca. Kalo nggak baca, ya nonton film saja lah.”
― Sylvia L'Namira

“That was a hell of a thing.”
― Engineer Fred Kwan Galaxy Quest