Good Movie Quotes

• No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

  Roger Ebert

  Long, Enough, Bad Movies

  "A long column about the length of movies" by Eric Snider, www.mtv.com. July 13, 2011.

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• There's not a lot of good movies being made.

  Sean Penn

  Made

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• But most good movies have a gun in them.

  David Sedaris

  Gun

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• When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

  Chris Tucker

  Black, Want, Starting Out

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Apology, Years, Hollywood

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• I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Girl, Twilight

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• A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

  Michael Douglas

  Actors, Want, Concerned

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Apr 11, 2013

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• There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Drama, Prejudice, Comedy

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt: the new Heath Ledger?" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2009.

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• A good movie humanizes people.

  Ethan Hawke

  People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

  Stan Lee

  People, Incredibles, Bigs

  "Stan Lee Delves Into the Past of Iron Man". Interview with Brian Gallagher, www.movieweb.com. September 30, 2008.

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• Give me B movies or give me death!

  Clive Barker

  Movie, Giving, Cinema

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 16, 2013

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• If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Ideas, Sound, Clear

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Passion, Heart, Cinema

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• Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

  Frances McDormand

  Best Experiences, Film, Havens

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• I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Grateful, People, Appreciate

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• I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

  Dylan McDermott

  Hard Times, Able, Hell

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• The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?

  Stephen Rea

  Sex, Romance, Matter

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• I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

  Amanda Bynes

  Stars, Wanted, Hottest

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• Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Secret, Directors, Mysterious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always thought that the key to a good sex life is variety. That's why God gave me two hands. Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.

  Billy Crystal

  Sex, Hands, Two

  Billy Crystal (2013). “Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

  Warren Christopher

  Jobs, Wife, Together

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• I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Television, Firsts, First Time

  Jean Luc Godard, David Sterritt (1998). “Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews”, p.22, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Running, Children, Play

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• Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

  Oliver Stone

  Movie, Great Year, Greed

  "Wall Street". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.

  Emily VanCamp

  Party, Home, My Friends

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