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" A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. "

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" Let's have some new cliches. "

" Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. "

Martin Scorsese

" If I look confused it is because I am thinking. "

" Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. "

" Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. "

" I read part of it all the way through. "

" Our comedies are not to be laughed at. "

" I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying. "

" The harder I work, the luckier I get. "

" If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. "

" I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job. "

" Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. "

Jean-Luc Godard

" I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. "

" Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event. "

Sylvester Stallone

" A hospital is no place to be sick. "

" Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do. "

" Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. "

" Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done. "

" The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive. "

" When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. "

" The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you. "

" I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom. "

" Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. "

" I never liked you, and I always will. "

" No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. "

" The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence. To the right audience, Halle Berry is more glamorous commanding the elements as Storm in the X-Men movies than she is walking the red carpet in a designer gown. "

Virginia Postrel

" Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. "

" I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong. "