The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. Alfred Hitchcock
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theatre. Roman Polanski
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. Jean Cocteau
Only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one. Elvis Presley
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. Will Rogers
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. Walt Disney
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again. Jean Renoir
Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them – as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people. Ben Hecht
I never made a film which fully satisfied me. Roman Polanski
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. Roman Polanski
I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history. Humphrey Bogart
The end of a picture is always an end of a life. Sam Peckinpah
If someone’s dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I’m certainly not dumb enough to turn it down. Elizabeth Taylor
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish. Clive James
There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can. Clint Eastwood
A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles
Movie music is noise…even more painful than my sciatica. Thomas Beecham
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul. Ingrid Bergman
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you’re making a horror film doesn’t mean you can’t make an artful film. David Cronenberg
My dentist said to me the other day, I’ve enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films? David Cronenberg