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movies Synonyms

movies

n.

  1. *A showing of a moving picture

    motion picture, film, photoplay; see movie.

  2. The motion picture industry

    moving pictures, screen pictures, cinema, the cinematic industry, cinematography, Hollywood, the screen world, the silver screen*, the industry*, pictures*, the flicks*, celluloids*; see also theater 2.

movies Quotes

   Adding sound tomovies would be like putting lipstickon theVenus de Milo.

—Pickford, Mary originally  Gladys Mary Smith

Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

—Kael, Pauline

By the way, do you ever read the Bible? I suppose not very often, but I had occasion to the other night and believe me it is a lesson in how not to write for the movies. The worst kind of overwriting.Whole chapters that could have been said in one paragraph. And the dialogue!

—Chandler, Raymond

Making foreign policy is like pornographic movies†more fun doing it than watching it.

—Rogers,William Pierce

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

   Thankstothemovies, gunfirehas alwayssounded unreal to me, even when being fired at.

—Ustinov, Sir PeterAlexander

The words'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.

—Kael, Pauline

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

—Rogers,Will

We'll trot downtothemovies and seehowgirlswithwax faces live.

—Wilder,Thornton Niven

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

—Tarantino, Quentin

The worstthing thatcanhappento oldgoodmusic isthat it might become dated for a while, but watch out, in twenty years it will come drifting back like bell-bottoms and W.C. Fields movies.

—Hawes, Hampton