Cinema Quotes

— For example, I'm responsible for 19 of the 20 top-grossing films of all time.
— Nineteen?
— Yeah. The one about the kid by himself in his house burglars trying to come in and he fights them off I had nothing to do with that one. Somebody sold their soul to Satan to get grosses up on that piece of shit.

It's just like what's happening with us, like the past. The movie never changes. It can't change; but every time you see it, it seems different because you're different. You see different things.

You people. If there isn't a movie about it, it's not worth knowing, is it?

Con Air. It's got everything, hasn't it? You know, you've got Malkovich for your acting chops, you got Nicky Cage for your action, Steve Buscemi for your comedy, John Cusack for the gays. Right? It's like a smorgasbord, isn't it?

The real ones want fictional lives, the fictional ones want real lives.

— You're Norma Desmond! You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big!
— I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

— So one day, Loki's wiping out all the firstborn of Egypt...
— The Tenth Plague.
— See? Tell a person you're the Metatron, they stare blankly. Mention something in a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody's a theology scholar.

I came to Hollywood over 60 years ago and immediately fell in love with motion pictures. And it's a love affair that's lasted a lifetime. When I first arrived in Tinseltown, there were no cineplexes or multiplexes. No such thing as a Blockbuster or DVD. I was here before conglomerates owned the studios. Before pictures had special effects teams. And definitely before
box office results were reported like... Like baseball scores on the nightly news.

Real world's different from television.

— Hey, Jim, what about TV? You like TV?
— What?
— New thing, Jim. Television.
— Oh, pictures.
— Yeah.
— No, no pictures. Everything these days is pictures. Pictures and a lot of noise. Nobody even knows to talk, just grunt at each other.