Silver Screen Aficionado Mugs

'We should get out more often, where's the door?'

Faye Dunaway

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."

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."

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

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

"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."

"I thought they were cracking down on jaywalking."

"Bloody hell!"

'There's nothing on.'

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

Star Wars vs Star Trek

Getting to Know You

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

Kritik's Korner

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

Big screen TV falling through floor

"You can tell it's a period drama because they're not wearing ozone helmets."

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

Jimmy Cagney.

My phone is synced with my tablet, my tablet is synced with my laptop ... but none of them are synced with me."

"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.'

'Come quick: Rin Tin Tin is on TV again...'

"I'm sick of watching the same movie every day."

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

Movies vs. Films