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"It's just great to be able to talk to someone with the same aspect ratio."

"You don't have to like it; just acknowledge it."

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

Screenwriters pitch movie to studio boss: 'It's a reinterpretation of Bicycle Thieves, that classic of Italian neo-realism. We're calling it, Dude, Where's My Chopper?'

'Believing any filming experience may help launch acting careers, some even stage their appearances before closed circuit cameras.'

"This is the perfect way to watch movies if you love mosquitoes and having a cold, wet butt."

"We just watched a hypermovie!"

"I'll do the movie but I want to be highly compensated and highly acclaimed."

Herman Mankiewicz

King Kong uses fly spray against the pesky planes on top of the Empire State Building

Horror movies

Leslie Caron.

"Hey grandpa, tell us more about the time you were in that Steven Spielberg movie."

"I've seem an awful lot of movies ever since they cut them all down to two minutes."

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

'This should be perfect. The main characters fall in love during a series of explosions.'

"It was years ago, for a nature documentary, and they said it was going to be very artistic."

"I remember when the death of the hero meant the end of the sequels. Now it marks the beginning of the prequels."

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

"An actor, you say? Guess you caught the acting-like-a-waiter bug."

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

"Snow White! It's the dancing, singing woodland creatures wondering if you want to go down the pub."

'There's nothing on.'

"Bloody hell!"

What's an Imax cave?

"And the letterbox version, how does that make you feel."

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

'Well, now we know why Dracula's been getting all the girls lately.'

"Boy, this blooper reel from 'Manchester by the Sea' is a crack-up."

Waiter, what's this fly doing in my soup? A scene from an Esther Williams movie.

"That was totally....what's the word I'm looking for?"

"Housekeeping?!"

Applause

"...You talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here... You talking to me?!" "Narcissus De Niro"

Steve McQueen