Suzanne Fields Quotes

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

Warner Bros. is just this amazing historic studio that does great movies.

I have a romantic vision of the beautiful delineation between TV and film that existed for so many years. I romanticize the studio system and movie stars as a whole, but obviously that's just anachronistic and probably a non-reality.

No one is bigger than cinema.

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

My mom loved the old black-and-white films.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

There's nothing more American than movies.

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.

I lived in those old movie houses as a kid. I just loved them. What total escapism for someone.