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"The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it"
Angela Lansbury, Actress
"Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium"
Arthur Lowe, Actor
"Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful"
Fred Willard, Comedian
"I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes"
Ayumi Hamasaki, Musician
"Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident"
Lauren Bacall, Actress
"Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls"
Julia Phillips, Author
"Acting in 'Star Wars', I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were"
Mark Hamill, Actor
"You know, it's always fun to play the bad guy at the end of the day"
Julian McMahon, Actor
"To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential"
Andre Braugher, Actor
"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images"
Ingmar Bergman, Director
"If no producer, no movie"
Dino De Laurentiis, Director
"Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation"
Barry Levinson, Director
"I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected"
Jacqueline Bisset, Actress
"I've been interested in dreams since I, as a kid, and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time"
Christopher Nolan, Director
"Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important"
Mae West, Actress
"I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul"
Rob Reiner, Director
"People always said, I can't believe you made a movie that had no script. Yeah, but here's the thing, if you've got actors who are used to that, and that's what they like to do, they're all good improvisers and they're all people that feel comfortable doing that, then you know, it's not that big of a deal. It's what you do"
Rob Reiner, Director
"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism"
Bette Davis, Actress
"I was the Marlon Brando of my generation"
Bette Davis, Actress
"Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world"
Walt Disney, Cartoonist
"Everything I learned, I learned from the movies"
Audrey Hepburn, Actress
"Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
"In feature films, the director is God; in documentary films, God is the director"
Alfred Hitchcock, Director
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it"
Alfred Hitchcock, Director
"Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal"
Tom Hanks, Actor
"Pain is temporary, film is forever"
Michael J. Fox, Actor
"The only thing you owe the public is a good performance"
Humphrey Bogart, Actor
"All you owe the public is a good performance"
Humphrey Bogart, Actor
"I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor"
Alec Guinness, Actor
"Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes"
John Le Carre, Author
"The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion, don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor"
Julia Roberts, Actress
"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed"
Stanley Kubrick, Director
"A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed"
J. Michael Straczynski, Producer
"Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why"
Paul Newman, Actor
"As an actor and as a person, you come together with being in familiar territory, although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance"
Robert Redford, Actor
"The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story"
Robert Redford, Actor
"I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way"
Robert Redford, Actor
"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely"
Edmund Wilson, Critic
"Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper"
Jean Cocteau, Director
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