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The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I don't know if this is a matter for the costume department or the hairdresser.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

There's no thief like a bad movie.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist

Only twelve disciples? … Didn't I tell you I want this thing to be big, big, big!

(1906 – 1998) Russian-born English film producer & media mogul

If it's a good script I'll do it; and if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

A movie so good they named a country after it.

(1940 – ) American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator & actor (Monty Python’s Flying Circus)

Inviting her to review one of your pictures is like inviting the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny… yet no French sex comedies are funny.

(1954 – ) cartoonist, screenwriter, producer & creator of The Simpsons

Gandhi was everything the voting members of the Academy would like to be: moral, tan and thin.

(1932 – ) American journalist & film critic

He doesn't remember any silent days in motion pictures – the director always yelled.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

(1881 – 1958) American studio executive (Warner Brothers)

I got a German porno movie… which has subtitles, which is great 'cause, otherwise, I would have had no idea what was going on.

stand-up comedian, writer & actor

I saw a poster for Mission Impossible III the other day. I thought: It’s not impossible if he’s already done it twice.

(1980 – ) English comedian & novelist

Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn… then went to a steam bath and came out looking like Clark Gable.

(1926 – 1991) American television journalist

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

An actor enters through a door, you've got nothing; but if he enters through a window, you've got a situation.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

Devotees of awful filmmaking can't go wrong with this one.

movie critic

He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and on airplanes, because no one can leave.

(1936 – 2018) American actor

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer