Cinema quotes

◆ The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

- Marilyn Monroe100

◆ That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.

- Bert Lahr99

◆ I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one

- Katharine Whitehorn99

◆ Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood. Caligula wished a single neck for all his subjects that he could behead a kingdom with one blow. Cinema is this transfoming agent. The body exists for the sake of the eyes; it becomes a dry stalk to support these two soft insatiable jewels.

- Jim Morrison99

◆ Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. The fable is the best storytelling device ever conceived, and the screen is its best medium.

- Walt Disney99

◆ American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international

- Bernard Tavernier99

◆ Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by motherfuking inch we must, because we have no other choice.

- Oliver Stone99

◆ We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

- Walt Disney99

◆ Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

- Federico Fellini99

◆ Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

- Jean-Luc Godard99

◆ The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it

- Sophia Loren99

◆ The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

- Jim Morrison99

◆ I'd rather do theater and British films than move to LA in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

- Kate Winslet99

◆ Film stars to me were always six feet four, had perfect teeth and could do handstands on Malibu Beach - and didn't need glasses

- Michael Caine99

◆ Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.

- Conan O'Brien99