There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.
I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn’t go see it.
‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ is one of the greatest films of all time.
Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.
I never enjoyed working in a film.
Every time I make a picture the critics’ estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore.
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
I didn’t have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don’t know.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
There’s an electrical thing about movies.
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
It’s the story that counts.
I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It’s wonderful, isn’t it?
A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
I’ve made 122 movies, and I daresay there’s a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.
