Cinematic Aficionados Gifts

Janet Leigh

Adult Courses. It's so hard keeping the information from different classes separate! I'm talking film history and psychology. I failed a test because I said a "psychopath" is the walkway Norman Bates took home. I also confused geography and aeronautics. I said the "great plains" are located at an Air Force testing base in the California desert. My worst nightmare was confusing the thinks ti learned in driver's education and statistics. But at least I now know it's driving where you must st

"Thanks to the Oscars, we're going to be the hottest finger food this season."

"Bond James, Bond."

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?'

"They're wearing cameras. How humiliating."

"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

'The secret to doing a book report is only picking books that have been made in to movies.'

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

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

"Let's talk film or let's not talk film - I'm easy."

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

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

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

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

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

"Seth, here, is one of the best young creative compromisers in the business."

"Bloody hell!"

"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the heck else are you talking... you talking to me?"

Getting to Know You

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

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

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

Kritik's Korner

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

Steve McQueen

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

Canadian film production

Brad Pitt

'Hey, Charlie, have we got good news for you!'

"I want you to know that emotion overrode reason."

Moby Dick