“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown.”
Charlie Chaplin
ComedyIdentity
Movies Quotes
100 FAMOUS QUOTES · MOVIES
Movies Quotes
Read 100 of the best movie quotes from Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Akira Kurosawa, Roger Ebert, Shakespeare and more, plus original quotes for film lovers.
“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
Charlie Chaplin
ComedySimplicity
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
Jean-Luc Godard
StorytellingCreativity
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.”
Jean-Luc Godard
CinemaTruth
“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”
Jean-Luc Godard
CinemaMagic
“To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.”
Akira Kurosawa
ArtistsCourage
“With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film.”
Akira Kurosawa
ScreenwritingDirectors
“Not to have seen the cinema of Satyajit Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.”
Akira Kurosawa
Indian CinemaSatyajit Ray
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
Orson Welles
CinematographyPoetry
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
Orson Welles
EndingsStorytelling
“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
Stanley Kubrick
ImaginationFilmmaking
“A film is, or should be, more like music than like fiction.”
Stanley Kubrick
Film MusicEmotion
“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”
Ingmar Bergman
EmotionSoul
“Film as dream, film as music.”
Ingmar Bergman
DreamsMusic
“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams.”
Federico Fellini
DreamsCinema
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
Federico Fellini
LifePassion
“The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.”
François Truffaut
Future of CinemaLove
“There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.”
Frank Capra
FilmmakingCreativity
“It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.”
John Ford
ActingFunny
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”
Billy Wilder
InstinctConfidence
“I dream for a living.”
Steven Spielberg
DreamsFilmmaking
“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”
Martin Scorsese
CinematographyChoices
“Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”
Meryl Streep
ActingEmpathy
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”
Michael Caine
ActingCalm
“Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.”
Sanford Meisner
ActingTruth