Film & Cinematography Quotes South Africa

 
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."
Alfred Hitchcock

"I think we're barraged with movies where it's not important that the people are real people. They can be perfect bodies and do the 62 flips and catch knives and then talk in iambic pentameter for a second before they throw it back."
Steve Zahn

"I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth."
River Phoenix

"Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie."
Sam Mendes

"Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the colour of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital."
Vincent Canby

"Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Suess inspired me to try cauliflower."
Jim Carrey

"No matter how desperate the predicament is, I'm always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head."
Charlie Chaplin

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
William Blake

"I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living."
Steven Spielberg

"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."
Lynwood L. Giacomini

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
Charlie Chaplin

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