"You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it." ~ Quentin Tarantino, 1994
The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting. ~ Cary Grant, Evenings With Cary Grant
The cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. ~ Alfred Hitchcock
Above all, a director has to be a good captain. ~ Charlton Heston
The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto. ~ Gregory Peck
The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts. ~ Elia Kazan, 1981
It starts with the writer--it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word. ~ Steven Spielberg
Actors die so loud. ~ Henry Miller
We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies--all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history--we all learn them at the movies. ~ Jack Nicholson, L.A. Times, 2003
The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film." ~ Clint Eastwood
To make a motion picture, I have people moving through a world and I manipulate the space they're moving through to modify how you feel about them and feel about the space. I'm a maker of scenes. ~ Michael Mann