1. "Every great film should seem new every time you see it." - Roger Ebert (43 words)
2. "In the movies, we have the illusion of making things happen." - Andrew Niccol (44 words)
3. "Movies can and do have a tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood." - Walt Disney (34 words)
4. "The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them." - Mary Schmich (23 words)
5. "A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it." - Roger Ebert (15 words)
6. "The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself." - Will Rogers (19 words)
7. "I've never seen a successful movie about a writer." - Fran Lebowitz (12 words)
8. "All movies are about UFOs." - David Mamet (7 words)
9. "The greatest thing about cinema is that it's really kind of like a one-man band." - Ed Burns (18 words)
10. "Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes." - Robert Altman (10 words)
11. "Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things." - Martin Scorsese (15 words)
12. "Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out." - Martin Scorsese (13 words)
13. "A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it." - Alfred Hitchcock (21 words)
14. "What I love about the movies is the sense of escape you feel." - Amy Adams (13 words)
15. "Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses." - Richard King (13 words)
16. "Movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts." - Roger Ebert (14 words)
17. "The cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock (15 words)
18. "All art is political, Johnson. Otherwise, it would just be decoration." - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (14 words)
19. "We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies." - Walt Disney (15 words)
20. "There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness." - Frank Capra (17 words)
21. "A movie isn't good or bad because of what it's about, but how it's about it." - Roger Ebert (15 words)
22. "I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated." - Steven Spielberg (13 words)
23. "A good movie is one that makes you feel alive while you're watching it." - Steven Soderbergh (17 words)
24. "The magic of cinema is that we can have an emotional experience through the eyes of someone else." - Ryan Coogler (20 words)
25. "Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage." - Charlie Chaplin (16 words)
26. "The best movies are the ones that touch you in some way you didn't expect." - Wim Wenders (15 words)
27. "The movies we make are entertainment. They're designed to make people feel good." - Tom Hanks (14 words)
28. "I'm someone who believes that movies are a reflection of our times." - Spike Lee (13 words)
29. "Cinema is a mirror that reflects society, so it's bound to cause controversy." - Alejandro González I?árritu (16 words)
30. "Movies are a communal art form, where you experience it together." - Ava DuVernay (13 words)
31. "A great movie should transport you into its world like it's running through your veins." - Quentin Tarantino (16 words)
32. "The great challenge of movies is to make something that's simple, complex." - Rob Reiner (15 words)
33. "The best movies transport you to another world and make you forget who you are." - Guillermo del Toro (17 words)
34. "Cinema is the most alive of all the arts." - Martin Scorsese (10 words)
35. "The cinema is a great medium to celebrate our common humanity." - Mira Nair (14 words)
36. "Movies can be the most intoxicating thing in the world." - Vincent Cassel (11 words)
37. "There's nothing like sitting in a dark theater with strangers and sharing emotions." - Jim Carrey (17 words)
38. "The movies we love are like a part of us that we want to share with others." - David O. Russell (15 words)
39. "Movies are like a time machine that takes us to different eras and worlds." - Terry Gilliam (15 words)
40. "Movies are one of the few things in life where you get more than you paid for." - Kenneth Branagh (15 words)
41. "If you can't dance to it, it's not my revolution." - Emma Goldman (10 words)
42. "I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful." - Marilyn Monroe (12 words)
43. "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." - The Godfather (9 words)
44. "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller's Day Off (21 words)
45. "We accept the love we think we deserve." - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (9 words)
46. "I feel the need...the need for speed." - Top Gun (9 words)
47. "Love means never having to say you're sorry." - Love Story (9 words)
48. "People change. Feelings change. It doesn't mean that the love once shared wasn't true and real." - The Notebook (19 words)
49. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (22 words)
50. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs (13 words)
