Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
Horror movies are the best date movies. There’s no wondering, ‘When do I put my arm around her?’
I’m married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
Movies are like magic tricks.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
‘Home Alone’ was a movie, not an alibi.
You read a script and its based on ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’, and it goes right in the bin.
I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie.
If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.
I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
