movie quotes

California's power to cloud men's minds must never be Baldwin forgot.Under its spell we submitted foreight yearstothe governance of Ronald Reagan, who had trouble distinguishing history from old movie plots.

- Russell Wayne Baker
  'Don't Look Back', in the NewYork Times,1  Aug.

The movie-makers are able to put more reality into a picture about theterrors of life at the ocean bottom than into a tale of two Milwaukeeans in love.

- Ben Hecht
  In news reports,13  Jun.

The action movie in the1980s became like what the silent movie used to be. The same movie could be seen in Los Angeles and Taiwanand Hong Kong and youdidn't need subtitles because everybody understands Bruce Willis blowing things up in a torn vest.

- Neil Jordan
  In The Scotsman, 22 May.

We are always acting on what just finished happening. It happened at least1/30th of a second ago. We think we're inthe present, but wearen't.The present we know is onlya movie of the past.

- Ken Elton Kesey
Quoted in Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool- Aid  Acid Test (1968), ch.11.

If you are going to spend two hundred million dollars on a movie, this is the way to do it.

- Anthony Lane
Admiring the film Titanic. In Nobody's Perfect:  Writings from The NewYorker (2002).

Each daya few more lies eat into the seed with whichwe are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

- Norman Kingsley Mailer
  Advertisements for Myself,'First  Advertisement for Myself'.

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises and you are constantly getting fucked.

- David Alan Mamet
  Charlie. Speed The Plough, sc.1.