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
  Letter to Edgar Carter, 28 Mar.

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
  Raise Up Off Me (with Don  Asher), ch.22.

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
  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

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

-Kael, Pauline
  Going Steady.

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

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  The Spooky  Art: Some Thoughts on Writing.

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

-Pickford, Mary originally  Gladys Mary Smith
Recalled on her death, 29 May1979.

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

-Rogers,Will
TheAutobiography ofWill Rogers (published1949), ch.6.

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

-Rogers,William Pierce
  On becoming Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs,7 Jun.

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

-Tarantino, Quentin
  In the Observer,'Sayings of theWeek',16 Oct.

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

-Ustinov, Sir PeterAlexander
  Dear Me.

We'll trot downtothemovies and seehowgirlswithwax faces live.

-Wilder,Thornton Niven
  The Skin of OurTeeth, act 3.