Popular Film Quotes:

You can't handle the truth!

- Jack Nicholson

topic: Movie, Memorable, Great Year, Memorable Movie, Lexicon

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Marlon Brando

topic: Classic, Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

- Mario Puzo

topic: Refuse, Offers, Best Film, Memorable Movie, Damn You

May the Force be with you.

- George Lucas

source: Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

topic: Movie, Film History, Psychics, Chosen One, Best Film

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

- Clark Gable

source: "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

topic: Movie, Badass, Wind, Best Film, War Movie

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

- Bram Stoker

source: Dracula ch. 2 (1897)

topic: Children, Halloween, Night, Movie Actors, Movies And Music

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

- Steven Spielberg

topic: Technology, Bells, Noise, Popular Film

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

- Melissa Harris-Perry

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Powerful, Stories, Film, True Story, Popular Film

I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular films are female - you start seeing it everywhere. It's so much bigger. So you've uncovered this groundbreaking data and research.

- Emma Watson

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Data, Female, Roles, Popular Film, Groundbreaking

'Saw' is a particularly popular film with 14-30 year olds, so I'll be at a playground and meet six or 10 skateboarders who just wanna talk about 'Saw.'

- Tobin Bell

topic: Years, Saws, Six, Skateboarder, Popular Film

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.

- Wallace Shawn

topic: Princess, Thinking, Done, Popular Film, Princess Bride

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

- Frances O'Grady

topic: Kids, Independent, Film, Popular Film

I was never a fanatical movie person.

- John Malkovich

topic: Persons, Popular Film, Popular Movie

I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.

- William Monahan

topic: Art, Hero, Mean, Super Hero, Popular Film

Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

- Alan Hirsch

topic: Sports, Lying, Adventure, Vicarious, Popular Film

To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

- Mark Mothersbaugh

topic: Moving, Messages, Hollywood, Popular Film

Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the cause and effect of violent activity. It's not a Donald Duck situation where he get a brick in the back of the head and gets up and walks away in the next frame. Mine have violence which keeps Donald Duck in the hospital for six months and creates a trauma which he will remember for the rest of his life.

- Peter Greenaway

topic: Thinking, Ducks, Differences, Popular Film, Donald Duck

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

- Danny Boyle

topic: Ordinary, Film, Easy, Fondness, Popular Film

'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd become such a popular film.

- Will Ferrell

topic: Running, New York, Holiday, Popular Film