Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. — Kevin Costner
The Sound of Music was just such an honour to be in, because it was a movie that appeals to so many people, and they just loved it so much and they still love it to this day. — Angela Cartwright
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
My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen'. — Jared Kushner
The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget. — James Stewart
Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz. — Maureen O'Hara
Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood. — Ginger Rogers
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. — Angela Carter
Every great film should seem new every time you see it. — Roger Ebert
Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. — Leonard Maltin
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. — Will Rogers
We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it. — Margot Kidder
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be. — Jack Black
Short Classic Movie Quotes
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. — Burt Reynolds
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher. — Michael Eisner
I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out. — Christopher Eccleston
I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies. — Mark Hamill
I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites. — Kurt Russell
I'm not interested in a realistic look - not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Mario Puzo
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. — Michael Douglas
The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations. — Richard Ayoade
A classic is a book that has never been finished saying what it has to say.
I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again. — Margaret Mitchell
The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made. — Logan Lerman
Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion. — Malcolm Arnold
An instant family classic that is utterly unique but reminiscent of films like 'E.T.,' 'Sound of Music' and 'Life Is Beautiful.' — Mark Burnett
Old Movie Quotes
I liked how 'Star Wars' felt both old and new. — Akira Toriyama
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. — Marlon Brando
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy. — Quentin Tarantino
Great moments are born from great opportunities.
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera. — Douglas Rushkoff
I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back. — Jason Segel
I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me. — Jonah Hill
I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50 and it's 3% good and 97% stupid.
Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists. — Allan Kaprow
The disconnect between what's going on in schools and what's allowed to be shown in movies has gotten really bad because girls in junior high are having oral sex and getting bracelets for it, and in movies everybody's got to be 30 years old to have sex. It's very bizarre. — Amy Heckerling
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. — Mario Puzo
Old Classic Quotes
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. — Victor Hugo
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? — Bob Hope
I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard. — Paul Westerberg
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. — Eberhard Weber
I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out. — Kid Rock
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. — Sylvia Plath
To make a great film need three things - the script, the script and the script.
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. — Marc Almond
When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music. — Chris Martin
My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover. — Tom Glazer
Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes. — Dan Rather
If you make the choice of reading classic literature every day for a year, rather than reading the news, by the end of that time period you’ll have a more honed sensitivity for recognizing greatness from the books than from the media. — Rick Rubin
Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. — Judith Viorst
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. — Clifton Fadiman
An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance. — T. E. Lawrence
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. — Carl Van Doren
I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature. — Victor Salva
There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake. — Tim Burton
I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five? — Clint Eastwood
Great movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor who were capable of saying so much without saying anything at all merely by carrying themselves in a classic fashion that's timeless yet relatable. — Lily Collins
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. — Oliver Stone
We have our classic hood movies, right? Like "Boyz in the Hood." We have our classic conscious films like Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," or "Stand By Me." Even beyond Coogler, there are black films that are just voices. So the intention behind this ["The Land"] was to capture today's. — Steven Caple Jr.
Kate Winslet [for Steve Jobs movie, 2015] is the darling. If you wanna be the king you gotta kill the king. I think Charlotte [Rampling] is the dark horse on this one. No one does classic beauty better than her. — Bun B
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! — Herman J. Mankiewicz
Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars. — Casey Robinson
A man's got to know his limitations. — Harry Callahan
Every man has got to know his limitations. — Clint Eastwood
A boy's best friend is his mother. — Joseph Stefano
As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration. — Tim Gunn
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die! — William Goldman
I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear. — Margot Kidder
I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars. — James Ellroy
There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. — Bill Condon
I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on. There's something classic about this movie that I'm hoping reaches kids. — Rob Morrow
I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era. — Fred Savage
No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic. — Peter Travers
I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies. — Lana Del Rey
I came out of film school and went after movies that I thought audiences wanted to see or that the studios wanted, as opposed to the movies that I wanted. Over the last 10 years, I've gravitated more and more toward the films that I grew up loving - classic Spielberg, Lucas, James Cameron and Ridley Scott movies. — Simon Kinberg
To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema. — Wim Wenders
Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times. — Michael Tilson Thomas
I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent. — Grace Jones
I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr. — John Green
It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it. — Robin Quivers
I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that is now a piece of history. You go watch, being a fan of classic films and my children and their children are going to be watching these movies. — Edward Zwick
I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc. — Tommy Wiseau
I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters in the movies. Can you imagine Breakfast at Tiffany's shot somewhere else? It's classic. Characters are part of storytelling; they're just as important as everything else. — Antoine Fuqua
I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics. — Ernest Cline
I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch "Singin' in the Rain" and "White Christmas" - those kind of movies. — Lucas Grabeel
Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me. — Jerry Lawler
I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies. — Vanessa Brown
Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships. — John C. Maxwell
We've all got a lot of catching up to do. I'm still learning how to act, for god's sake. When I see these old-timers on the Turner Classic Movies, I still get ideas, you know. That's where you really learn acting. If you really see some of these old boys working it and you say to yourself, "My God, if I could really do that that would be wonderful." — Ernest Borgnine
Saturday The 14th movie is a cult classic. And you know another one like that that I did, is Three O'Clock High. People come up to me about those two all the time. Film schools even study Three O'Clock High. Shot for shot, it's a textbook. — Jeffrey Tambor
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