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| De säger att filmerna borde vara mer som livet. Jag tycker livet borde vara mer som filmerna. | Lorenzo Zala |
| En filmatisering av Kafkas texter är som att arrangera Månskenssonaten för blåsorkester. | Lorenzo Zala |
| För mig är biografen inte en bit av livet utan en bit av en tårta. | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| I hollywood betalar de tio tusentals dollar för en kyss, och en halv cent för din själ. | Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) |
| Jag gillar att gå på bio med dig. Det är en mycket intressant upplevelse. Särskilt under kärleksscenerna när dina ögon skiner som eldklot och du stoppar popcornen i näsan! | Russell Myers (1900-) |
| Jag skriver många texter och är inblandad i produktionsprocessen, för om jag ska sjunga det så måste det vara något jag kan relatera till. | Lindsay Lohan (1986-) |
| Jag vill att en film ska börja med en jordbävning och sedan öka i tempo hela tiden fram mot sitt klimax. | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |
| Jag vill bara säga en sak om dagens biografer: det är oftast mer skräp på duken än på golvet. | Bette Davis (1908-1989) |
| Jag är glad att jag får spela roller med andra i min ålder, för så snart som jag gör någon vuxen roll, så finns det ingen återvändo. | Lindsay Lohan (1986-) |
| Mitt råd till en skådespelare innan han går in på scenen: "Snyt dig och knäpp gylfen!" | Alec Guinness (1914-) |
| Må Kraften vara med dig. | Yoda |
| Några av mina bästa manliga motspelare har varit hästar och hundar. | Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) |
| När en film gör succé handlar det om affärer. När en film inte gör succé handlar det om konst. | Carlo Ponti (1910-) |
| Om det är ett budskap du vill föra fram, håll dig borta från filmen och skicka ett telegram. | Harry Cohn (1891-1958) |
| Om en film som kostar fem miljoner dollar ser ut som om den kostade tio så är den bra. Om den ser ut att ha kostat fyra är det något som är fel. | Clint Eastwood (1930-) |
| Problemet med censur är att de oroar sig för om en kvinna har urringning. De borde oroa sig om hon inte hade en. | Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) |
| Producenterna skulle inte göra motbjudande filmer om inte publiken gick och såg dem. | Bette Davis (1908-1989) |
| Skådespeleri är konsten att få folk att låta bli att hosta. | Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-1983) |
| Somliga filmstjärnor har mörka glasögon till och med i kyrkan. De är rädda för att Gud ska upptäcka dem och be om en autograf. | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |
| Säg till regissören att ge dödsscenen lite mera liv. | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |
| Tydligen så kommer de nya high-tech StarWars-leksakerna att finnas i butik vilken dag som helst nu. Leksakerna kan prata och är interaktiva, så de lätt kan urskiljas från StarWars-fans. | Conan O'Brien |
| Drama er bare livet med de kedelige afsnit skåret væk | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| Jeg laver eksperimentalfilm. Det kalder jeg dem, fordi jeg ikke aner, hvad jeg laver. | Andy Warhol (1928-1987) |
| Personligt finder jeg actionfilm dødkedelige. For mig er et drama det psykologiske spil mellem mennesker. | Bille August |
| Publikum elsker lige så meget at græde som at le. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| Film er et af de tre universelle sprog, de øvrige to: matematik og musik. | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| Mit råd til unge filmskabere er dette: Følg ikke en trend, start den! | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| Og modstand har man brug for. Hvis man ikke for modstand i forhold til det, man gerne vil lave, så er man færdig. Ens talent kan ikke udvikle sig uden modstand. Så banalt og så elementært er det. | Ole Bornedal |
| Jeg er kun Robert Redford når jeg er alene. | Robert Redford (1937-) |
| Vold i film kan have grimme følger. Men hvad kan der ske efter sex-film? Højst at folk får flere børn. | Sophia Loren (1934-) |
| Glem aldrig, at hele denne forretning blev startet af en mus | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| Jeg har altid haft et mareridt. Jeg drømmer at en af mine film bliver vist i en kunstbiograf. og jeg vågner rystende op. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| Jeg har boet adskillige år i Hollywood, og jeg mener stadig, at filmheltene er publikum. | Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) |
| I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. | Andy Warhol (1928-1987) |
| If we have to kiss Hollywood good-bye, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses as exchanged between two people of the opposite sex with all their clothes on. | Anita Loos (1893-1981) |
| Speed cameras.....are fatuous instruments of oppression .....designed to exercise power and impose subservience purely for its own sake. | Auberon Waugh |
| I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine. | Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) |
| Everybody kisses everybody else in this crummy business all the time. It's the kissiest business in the world. | Ava Gardner (1922-1990) |
| A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live. | Bob Hope (1903-2003) |
| This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. | Clint Eastwood (1930-) |
| Karate is a form of marital arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| My advice to young film-makers is this: Don't follow trends, Start them! | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is. | Greta Garbo (1905-1990) |
| A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Many people see Eva Peron as either a saint or the incarnation of Satan. That means I definitely can identify with her. | Madonna (1958-) |
| When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| The cinema has no boundaries. It is a ribbon of dreams. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. | Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) |
| In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on. | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| For the entire state of Georgia, having the première of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late. | Anne Edwards |
| It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films. | Boris Karloff (1887-1969) |
| My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. | Burt Reynolds (1936-) |
| Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity. | Conan O'Brien |
| We are the movies and the movies are us | David Ansen |
| A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts. | Donna A. Favors |
| I made it for myself - it was a film I wanted to see. | Donna Deitch (1945-) |
| Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama | Eric Johnston |
| Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. | Federico Fellini (1920-1993) |
| An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly. | Fred R. Barnard |
| Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts. | Gene Shalit (1936-) |
| Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political. | Gene Wilder (1935-) |
| The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather. | Hugh Grant (1960-) |
| The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people | Irving Thalberg (1899-) |
| I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie. | Jean-Luc Godard (1930-) |
| A film is a petrified fountain of thought. | Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) |
| A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again. | Jean Renoir (1894-1979) |
| What's done to children, they will do to society | Karl Menninger, Dr. (1893-) |
| The silent film was not only a vigorous popular art; it was a universal language - Esperanto for the eyes | Kevin Brownlow (1938-) |
| Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive. | Nancy Reagan (1921-) |
| I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm. | Natasha Lyonne (1979-) |
| Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them | Pauline Kael (1919-2001) |
| The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part | Paul Hirsch |
| All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me -probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically. | Pedro Almodovar (1951-) |
| I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema. | Pedro Almodovar (1951-) |
| When I was very young, I was already a fabulador. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew. When I got out of a movie with my sisters, I retold them the whole story. In general they liked my version better than the one they had seen. | Pedro Almodovar (1951-) |
| The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman. | Penelope Cruz (1974-) |
| Hitchcock has, thanks to color, been able to make the cruelty of his scenes almost beautiful | Peter Cowie |
| Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money. | Renee Zellweger (1969-) |
| Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is... the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own. | Richard Avedon (1923-2004) |
| My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. | Robert Bresson (1907-) |
| Movies bore me, especially my own. | Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) |
| 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. | Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) |
| Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. | Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) |
| Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer | Warren Beatty (1937-) |
| It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing gum. | Wolcott Gibbs (1902-1958) |
| The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| 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. | Andy Warhol (1928-1987) |
| Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. | Billy Wilder (1906-2002) |
| This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. | Clint Eastwood (1930-) |
| Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. | David Mamet (1947-) |
| A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. | David Mamet (1947-) |
| Luke, I am your father | David Prowse (1935-) |
| Everything makes me nervous - except making films. | Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) |
| Scriptwriting [for film] is the toughest part of the whole racket . . . the least understood and the least noticed. | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. | Graham Greene (1904-1991) |
| In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt! | Halle Berry (1966-) |
| Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
| In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too. | Kirsten Dunst (1982-) |
| So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject. | Kirsten Dunst (1982-) |
| I wanted to describe the world at the same time, through image, express what I felt. It was the time of the great documentary filmmakers: Richard Leacock, Joris Ivens. Today, television has put an end to this type of filmmaking. | Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941-) |
| I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role. | Leonardo DiCaprio (1974-) |
| I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me. | Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) |
| I never enjoyed working in a film. | Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) |
| The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. | Mary Schmich |
| Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses | Michael Caine (1933-) |
| Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| I don't know if All About My Mother is my best film yet. I haven't had time to analyse it. If you look at the argument it looks like an outrageous story, but the challenge was to show the story as something real and emotional. The truth is that everybody leaves the cinema feeling a better person. | Pedro Almodovar (1951-) |
| I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing. | Roman Polanski (1933-) |
| Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing? | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |
| A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |
| What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too. | Shana Alexander (1925-2005) |
| It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel. | Susan Sontag (1933-2004) |
| The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. | Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) |
| The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films. | Paul Newman (1925-) |
| What's done to children, they will do to society | Karl Menninger, Dr. (1893-) |
| It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel. | Susan Sontag (1933-2004) |
| A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |
| In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water. | Robert Bresson (1907-) |
| 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. | Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) |
| Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. | Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) |
| The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people | Irving Thalberg (1899-) |
| A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again. | Jean Renoir (1894-1979) |
| If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on. | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| Scriptwriting [for film] is the toughest part of the whole racket . . . the least understood and the least noticed. | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| If a movie is described as a romantic comedy you can usually find me next door playing pinball | George Carlin (1937-) |
| My advice to young film-makers is this: Don't follow trends, Start them! | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part | Paul Hirsch |
| Filminstruktøren er jo i virkeligheden gud. En supermanipulator og minigud, der skaber verden på fem dage. Når jeg siger "lys", så bliver der lys. | Ole Bornedal |
| Mit hemmelige plot er et lave nogen skoler over hele landet for autodidakte. Så vil jeg score kassen på iværksætterydelse, og når folk møder op ved døren så hænger der et skilt, hvor der står: "Gå dog hjem!" | Ole Bornedal |
| I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark. | Angelina Jolie (1975-) |
| I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. | Bette Davis (1908-1989) |
| What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. | Billy Wilder (1906-2002) |
| Major Strasser has been shot! Round up the usual suspects! | Claude Rains (1889-) |
| You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk? | Clint Eastwood (1930-) |
| Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity. | Conan O'Brien |
| We are the movies and the movies are us | David Ansen |
| It took only 50 years for movies to go from silent to unspeakable. | Doug Larson |
| Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama | Eric Johnston |
| My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live | Erica Jong (1942-) |
| Well, ya best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner, you're in one! | Geoffrey Rush (1951-) |
| You're off the edge of the map Jack, here there be monsters! | Geoffrey Rush (1951-) |
| I want to be alone. | Greta Garbo (1905-1990) |
| Film spectators are quiet vampires. | Jim Morrison (1943-1971) |
| Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination. | Jim Morrison (1943-1971) |
| Claustrophobia makes it the perfect setting. | Jodie Foster (1962-) |
| Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you. | Johnny Depp (1963-) |
| Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition, from the man who did the waking. | Johnny Depp (1963-) |
| How 'bout we make it three shillings and we forget the name. | Johnny Depp (1963-) |
| "Welcome to the Caribbean Love!" | Johnny Depp (1963-) |
| I'll buy you a hat, a really big one. | Johnny Depp (1963-) |
| I'm terribly sorry, if I see one I shall inform you immediately. | Johnny Depp (1963-) |
| May the wind always be on your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. | Johnny Depp (1963-) |
| Good day Mr. Turner. | Keira Knightley (1985-) |
| The silent film was not only a vigorous popular art; it was a universal language - Esperanto for the eyes | Kevin Brownlow (1938-) |
| It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary. Film is forever.' | Leonardo DiCaprio (1974-) |
| I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies. | Leonardo DiCaprio (1974-) |
| Luke: What's in there?Yoda: Only what you take with you. | Luke Skywalker |
| Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. | Madonna (1958-) |
| It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his work will unlikely be perceived entirely as he intended. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof | Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) |
| Right where i left you... Not where i left you? | Orlando Bloom (1977-) |
| Hitchcock has, thanks to color, been able to make the cruelty of his scenes almost beautiful | Peter Cowie |
| Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money. | Renee Zellweger (1969-) |
| I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. | Stephen King (1947-) |
| A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. | Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
| 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 (1901-1966) |
| Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| It's a fine motion picture up to the point where God finishes and the script writer takes over. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them. | Winona Ryder (1971-) |
| Size matters not, ... Look at me. Judge me by size, do you? | Yoda |
| When watching a Steve McQueen movie on TV: "He must have made that before he died | Yogi Berra (1925-) |
| I turn on my computer. I wait patiently as it connects. I go online. My breath catches in my chest until I hear 3 little words, "You've got mail." I hear nothing, not a sound on the streets of New York. Just the beat of my own heart. I have mail...from you. | You've got mail |
| Denne scenen er for kjedelig. Be ham om å få mer liv inn i dødsfallet. | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |