Lily Collins Quotes

Hollywood in the 1930s is an incredible period of history. There are so many amazing stories about the stars and the studios at that time that you can't fit into one film.

I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.

I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.

You never get fans hanging out on movie sets. It just never happens.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

'You Must Remember This', the podcast about 'the secret and or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century', has a thread dedicated to Dead Blondes, which is a clue to where it's coming from.

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

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye.

We all know that people who've never been on a film set think it's way more glamorous than the people who work on them.

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.

If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s.