Movie Night Aficionado Gifts

"The Monday movie will be back after the messages that follow the following messages."

Batman returns

'What's going on at your end?'

"I'll have what she's having."

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?'

Herman Mankiewicz

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

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

"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!"

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

Canadian film production

"We need to make it through at least one movie, so we have something to root for during the Oscars."

'You don't want weather? Not a problem! How about sports, or maybe a nice movie? We can do that! Just put that thing down and let's talk, OK?'

Moby Dick

'Action!...Cut!...Right, everything else is CGI'

'And I love the part when he finds out that it was his brother all along!'

'So no animals were harmed in that movie...but how about the audience?!'

"Want to deal with some unresolved issues or just get another movie."

'How's this new concept? Instead of a gunfight, the hero overpowers the villian with a heartfelt homily on the sanctity of family values.'

Arnold's first day on the job - 'What do you mean...no director!!!...and who is going to tell me what to do?'

"Why don't you just go and see this summer's feel-good movie?"

'Harlow, why can't you be passionate like Mel Gibson?'

Script/Director/Producer/Decency Panel.

Hollywood Breakup

"No need for stage fright, it's just a documentary crew: be yourself..."