Movies Quotes

"I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."

Alfred Hitchcock

"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."

Orson Welles

"The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences."

Steven Spielberg

"You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going."

George Lucas

"Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option."

James Cameron

"Cinema resembles so many other arts. If cinema has very literary characteristics, it also has theatrical qualities, a philosophical side, attributes of painting and sculpture and musical elements. But cinema is, in the final analysis, cinema."

Akira Kurosawa

"I don't like the idea of 'understanding' a film. I don't believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art."

Federico Fellini

"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated."

Francois Truffaut

"Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form."

Jean-Luc Godard

"I was born inside the movie of my life."

Roger Ebert

"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."

Pauline Kael

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

Stephen King

"Make good art."

Neil Gaiman

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."

Ray Bradbury

"Not all those who wander are lost."

J. R. R. Tolkien

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Lewis Carroll

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."

Dr. Seuss

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

Roald Dahl

"There is no place like home."

L. Frank Baum

"If music be the food of love, play on."

William Shakespeare

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

Albert Einstein

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

Pablo Picasso

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

Mark Twain

"Be water, my friend."