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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. -- Angela Carter
I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies. -- Judy Greer
I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies. -- Amy Heckerling
And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her. -- Emily Giffin
Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood. -- Gwen Stefani
I draw creative juices from everywhere. I'm so visually inspired. I would watch old movies a lot to get inspiration for clothes. -- Cindy Meehl
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
As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid. -- Kola Boof
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
The whole idea of re-releasing old movies does bother me a little bit. If they're going to re-release an old movie, I should be able to get in with my old ticket. -- Craig Ferguson
I don't really watch much TV. I watch old movies and stuff like that, so I'm not up to date. My favorite vampire movie would definitely have to be the one with Gary Oldman [Dracula]. -- Steven R. McQueen
White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, especially black folks. Racial jokes were not new to them. -- Paul Mooney
The thing that I see disappearing is just the love of old movies among kids. Everything's accessible, so you can get it, but when everything's accessible, that means you have to access it. And if you're not interested, you don't. -- Rob Zombie
I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a posh restaurant and the hero hands the waiter $3. But the best part is when he says, "Keep the change." -- Robert Orben
Whenever you do something that's original, not based on a comic book or a novel or an old movie or a franchise, you definitely learn a lot and for I think it was very gratifying to see the people embrace the world. -- Alfred Gough
I like to think that I gave Jack Warner Brothers inking and Joe Sinnott gave him MGM inking. If you're not as in love with old movies as I am you might not make that connection, but I can see that connection. -- Mike Royer
I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I`m not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager this crazy old movie guy. -- Quentin Tarantino
If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. -- Pauline Kael
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. -- John Cusack
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement. -- Sam Keen
I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair. -- Chris Isaak
It's funny, if you go back and look at all those old movies a lot of times they didn't have the budget for music. Each scene here was written to a different time, whether that be 'Breakfast in America' or just different soundtracks that we had for different parts of the movie. I'm interested to see how it all plays once it's all put together. -- Todd Farmer
It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it. -- Lauren Bacall
I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy. -- Robert Altman
A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics. -- Allison Pearson
Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! -- George Bailey
That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures. -- Tim Burton
When I was four years old I watched the movie every day. I was totally obsessed. -- Ellen Marlow
Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that. -- Robert Knepper
My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system. -- Robert Greenblatt
I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5. -- Bailee Madison
I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels. -- Sarah Gadon
It's about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it. -- Emma Thompson
The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can. -- Orson Welles
The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles. -- Jack Huston
I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well. -- Deepika Padukone
Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness. -- Haruki Murakami
Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie? -- Jay Leno
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
Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness. -- Robbie Coltraine
I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important. -- Tanya Fischer
Me and Fred Wolf wrote the movie [ Grown Ups]. The whole idea was about putting together old friends that get to hang out for a weekend. -- Adam Sandler
Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us! -- Cornelia Funke
I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried. -- Drew Carey
There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me. -- Kenny Ortega
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality. -- Kenneth Turan
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can. -- Francis Ford Coppola
I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen. -- Julie Delpy
You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the movie," Puck said. -- Michael Buckley
The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men. -- Clint Eastwood
I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera. -- Steven Spielberg
Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look. -- Bruce Boxleitner
I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer. -- Andre Balazs
The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie. -- J. C. Chandor
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