Cinema is a matter of what is in the frame and what is out.

We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.

The words Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.

Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger, all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be suppressed in a humanitarian ordering of society.

You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times a second.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

(About the movies:) Well, I git enough of sorrow. I like to git away from it.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.

Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.