You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.

-Altman, Robert
  In The Independent,14 May.

Film art has a greater influence on the minds of the general public than any other art.

-Balazs, Bela originally Hubert Bauer
  Theory of the Film: Character and Growth of a New Art (translated by Edith Bone).

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

-Bennett, Alan
  A Private Function, introduction to published screenplay.

   Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.

-Rochdale
Sardanapalus, act1, sc.2.

When you start you want to make the greatest film in the world, but when you get into it, you just want to get it done, let it be passable and not embarrassing.

-Coppola, Francis Ford
Quoted in Michael Schumacher Francis Ford Coppola:  A Film- Maker's Life (1999).

I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.

-Fellini, Federico
Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993).

On the Beach is a storyabout the end of the world, and Melbourne sure is the right place to film it.

-Gardner, Ava originally Lucy Johnson
  Alleged comment to Australian journalist Neil Jillett of the Melbourne Age at the shooting of a film based on the book by British^ Australian novelist Nevil Shute.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired byan American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

-Hepburn, Katharine
  In the Journal  American, 22 Feb.

The Film Industry is the American Monarchy: it is strict entailed succession and Horatio Alger in one. Except for the money manipulators and speculators on the top, it is a society built onwork, achievement, and fealty tothose in power.

-Mamet, David Alan
  Writing in Restaurants,'Observations of a Backstage Wife'.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

-Mamet, David Alan
  In The Independent,11 Nov.

Film is the least realistic of art forms.

-Mamet, David Alan
  In The Guardian,16 Feb.

The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I've got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they'd ask 'And who's the girl?' Just one famous face isn't enough any more.

-Oldman, Gary
  In Scotland on Sunday, 30 May.

   A director makes only one film in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

-Renoir,Jean
Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993).

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

-Welles, (George) Orson
  'Un ruban de re"  ves'in L'Express,5 Jun. Reprinted in English in International Film Annual, no.2.

Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.

-Winner, Langdon
Quoted by David Lewin in CinemaToday,1 Jul1970.