Quotes About Classic Films

#1. I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that is now a piece of history. You go watch, being a fan of classic films and my children and their children are going to be watching these movies.

Edward Zwick

#2. I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.

Miranda Cosgrove

#3. We have an agreement," she explained. "I watch nothing to do with a hobbit, Vulcan, or comic book hero, and in return, Dexter's not forced to sit through a foreign romance, a BBC production, or one my classic films.

Kristin Billerbeck

#4. The studios mostly threw away the negatives of the classic films. They had no interest in their legacy.

William Friedkin

#5. I'd never studied film. I had movies that I loved and movie stars that I looked up to, but I really had not seen a lot of the great classic films that he felt like he wanted me to see before I took on such a huge role.

Mary Steenburgen

#6. I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things in the cinema when they come out, just to keep my eye on the competition. I'm bored when I'm not working.

Sam Riley

#7. Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.

Matt Reeves

#8. Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

Esther Meynell

#9. A man's got to know his limitations.

Harry Callahan

#10. An instant family classic that is utterly unique but reminiscent of films like 'E.T.,' 'Sound of Music' and 'Life Is Beautiful.'

Mark Burnett

#11. The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.

James Wolcott

#12. Alien is one of my favourite films. I'm a classic horror fan. It's a tough one for me, because I get scared quite easily.

Alison Brie

#13. I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

Ian Williams

#14. Every man has got to know his limitations.

Clint Eastwood

#15. The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

Irwin Shaw

#16. once
I heard her husky
laughter pour out like
rain after a drought

Tyrean Martinson

#17. I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.

Anna Kendrick

#18. I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.

P. J. Soles

#19. Would you stay and be next to me, just because I need you close?"
He looks down at my fingers twining with his ... "There's no way I could say no.

Mila Ferrera

#20. I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

Samuel L. Jackson

#21. Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it.

Bill O'Reilly

#22. 'Star Wars' is something that I've been a fan of since I was a kid - I played all the video games and I grew up reading 'Star Wars' books.

Samuel Witwer

#23. If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

Tom Hooper

#24. That's how memory works ... Things disappear without your permission, then come back again without your permission.

Kristin Cashore

#25. I'm a fan of the old 'Creature Features' like 'Critters,' and 'Gremlins' and 'Tremors.' 'Jaws' is classic. It's funny that I still like those films because I remember my mom would tease me about getting a pet Critter to keep under my bed.

Brooke Nevin

#26. Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.

Chelsea Handler

#27. We can do without things easier than we can do without people.

Nancy Grossman

#28. Faced with the crippling sanctions, Iran could simply decide it is paying too high a cost to pursue its nuclear program and could opt for negotiations and reconciliation with the United States and other members of the international community. This is clearly the preferred option of American leaders.

Richard Engel

#29. What I love about watching classic horror films is that they take you on a ride and they obviously make you scared because you're so invested in the characters, you're almost forgetting that oh my God, this is about to scare me.

Katie Holmes

#30. Fantasyland was designed as a home for some of the classic characters [from those films], and as a symbol of the magic, hope and beauty of the human imagination.

Leslie Le Mon

#31. My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

John Cusack

#32. To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, and Peter Sellers was just in the most amazing films.

Daniel Radcliffe

#33. Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Lauryn Hill

#34. Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

Sri Chinmoy