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John le Carré (top)
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
- John le Carré


Sam Ewing (top)
There's no thief like a bad movie.
- Sam Ewing


Brendan Francis (top)
Most horror movies are certainly that.
- Brendan Francis


Samuel Goldwyn (top)
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing?
- Samuel Goldwyn


Alfred Hitchcock (top)
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
- Alfred Hitchcock
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock


Don Marquis (top)
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
- Don Marquis


Wilson Mizner (top)
I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
- Wilson Mizner


Mary Pickford (top)
It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.
- Mary Pickford


Agnes Repplier (top)
What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
- Agnes Repplier


Jessamyn West (top)
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
- Jessamyn West