Movies

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

—Alfred Hitchcock

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

—Mary Pickford

In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

—Gary Cooper

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

—Will Rogers

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

—Samuel Goldwyn

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

—Alfred Hitchcock

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

—Jean Cocteau

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

—Bob Hope

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

—Alfred Hitchcock

Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.

—Unknown