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Old Movie Quotes

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.
- Jan De Bont

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.
- Susie Bright

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
- Yancy Butler

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
- Emily Giffin

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
- Angela Carter

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.
- Stephen King

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.
- Francis Ford Coppola

Old movies are black-and-white; they've got good guys and bad guys. The thing was, I didn't want to live in the past anymore. It was time for my life to go full color.
- Eileen Cook

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.
- Keith David

Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?
- Adele Griffin

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
- John Kricfalusi

The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.
- Ed Mcbain

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
- Amy Sedaris

When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.
- Alexis Smith

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
- Quentin Tarantino

I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
- Jack White

People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
- Jack White

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.
- Cecily Von Ziegesar

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