Favorite Movie Quotes

REPOST: Via "Favorite movie quotes" thread on a LinkedIn Group.

• Someone asked a similar question a short while back (or perhaps it was just one's favorite quote), but this is such a great question. I've numerous quotes that I incorporated into the materials I use for a law school course that I teach on entertainment financing - they're not from films, but about the film industry, and too good for me not to share (sorry to be so long, but I hope you'll all enjoy them):

“I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.” - David Mamet

“Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money.” - Tobe Hooper

“Hollywood held this double lure for me: tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.” - Ben Hecht

“If people don’t want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.” - Samuel Goldwyn

“If I knew what makes a movie catch on, then I'd make hit after hit.” - Jerry Bruckheimer

“When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving.” - Ben Hecht

“I went to Paramount because I wanted protection. Directing a picture and being responsible for whether there was toilet paper in the bathroom was too much for me.” – Ralph Bakshi

“Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they’re going to get fired.” – William Goldman

And the ever-popular: “Nobody knows anything.” – William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade

And as for actual film quotes, Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) in "Sunset Boulevard": "I AM big. It's the pictures that got small."

“Here's the Remains of the Day lunchbox. Kids don't like eating at school, but if they have a Remains of the Day lunchbox, they're a lot happier.” - “Waiting for Guffman”

By
Peter Levitan
Entertainment/Film Lawyer - finance & production specialist
Greater Los Angeles Area

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