Arts, Media & Entertainment: Movie Quotes

Discover a curated collection of memorable movie quotes spanning classic cinema, indie gems, and modern blockbusters. Find lines that capture love, courage, humor, and the unforgettable moments that define storytelling on the big screen. Browse quotes by theme, genre, or era, and revisit words delivered by acclaimed actors, directors, and screenwriters. Whether you are seeking inspiration, reflection, or a spark for conversation, these selections highlight the craft of dialogue and the cultural impact that keeps scenes resonating long after the credits roll.

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"As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action"

Harold Ramis, Actor

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

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"If it bleeds, we can kill it"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

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"The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see"

Dziga Vertov, Director

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"Film lovers are sick people"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"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, Director

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"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out"

Martin Scorsese, Director

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"I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket"

Laura Dern, Actress

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul"

Marilyn Monroe, Actress

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"A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again"

Jean Renoir, Director

"A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes"

Howard Hawks, Director

"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

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"Filmmaking can be a fine art"

Terri Windling, Artist

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet"

Orson Welles, Actor

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"The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them"

George Clooney, Actor

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"No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"We all need illusions. That's why we love movies"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

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"Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music"

Frank Capra, Director

"When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

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"The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has"

Francois Truffaut, Director

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie"

David Zucker, Director

"I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting"

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Actress

"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

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"Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons"

Gerard Butler, Actor

"I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different"

Bo Derek, Actress

"The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually"

Paul Hirsch, Politician

"But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film"

Robert Conrad, Director

"My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing"

Clint Eastwood, Actor

"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs"

Federico Fellini, Director

"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, Director

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"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas"

Jean-Luc Godard, Director

"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

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"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

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"The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

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