"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."

Movies, Day, May, Now

47

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."

Exlpore more Movies quotes

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Movies, Being, Reason

"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."

Ewan McGregor, Scottish Actor

Movies, Appetite, Old, Romantic

"The fact is, it's hard to release movies."

Campbell Scott, American Actor

Movies, Fact

"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."

David Fincher, American Director

Movies, Will

"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them."

David Fincher, American Director

Movies,

"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."

David R. Ellis, American Director

Movies, Chance, Summer, Want

"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."

Griffin Dunne, American Actor

Movies,

"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."

Gabrielle Reece, American Athlete

Movies, Being, Famous, Want

"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films."

Ken Burns, American Director

Movies, Truth, Drama, Hollywood

"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."

James Stewart, American Actor

Movies, Acting

Explore more quotes by Pauline Kael

"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."

Creativity

"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."

Advertising

"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

Art

"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."

Movies

"A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is."

Mistake

"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art."

Art

"A book might be written on the injustice of the just."

Justice

"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them."

Art

"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."

Chance

"Trash has given us an appetite for art."

Art