Old Movie Quotes

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

There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.

Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and the way that we get knowledge from them, through television, old movies, which I watch a lot of. Lines of dialogue suddenly seem to be part of a poem.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

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.

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

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

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns.

Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.

When you see old movies, there were so many beautiful actresses. Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were beautiful... They were all so glamorous. You never saw them in their dungarees and their gym suits. They always looked fabulous.