Diane Keaton Quotes

Friends would ask, 'Have you seen 'The Godfather?' and I'd be like, 'No.'

In my office, we were talking about the fact that they'd announced a remake of 'A Star is Born,' and I was bemoaning the idea of a fourth remake. And the young guys who work in my office were giving me blank looks, like, 'What's 'A Star is Born?'

I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.

People constantly make pop-culture references. That's why it's called popular culture, because people are aware of it and reference it constantly.

I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

I personally think 'Chimes of Midnight' is a much better film than 'Citizen Kane.'

I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work.

You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn't really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, 'E.T.' and 'Indiana Jones.' Those were the only things I knew existed.

My son is very trendy and with-it, and he was the one who showed me 'Gummo.'

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.

There's an excellent movie we have on TCM called 'It Happened on Fifth Avenue,' which was originally going to be directed by Frank Capra... but just before he was going to start working on it, he came across this story called 'The Greatest Gift.' And that turned into 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

You can be sure that they'll be showing 'Ben-Hur' somewhere for a long, long time to come.

I have people come up to me who love 'The Other Sister,' or 'Old School,' or 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape.'

I'm influenced by those '40s, '50s, and '60s films: things like 'The Apartment' - I was a big fan of Billy Wilder.

I was talking to a TV bigwig, and he said, 'Nobody under 35 knows who Sammy Davis is.' Well, you'll hear angry denials of that from younger people.

I have never worried about having my finger on the pulse, because I consume music and cinema voraciously, and assumed that meant I would know all of the things my kids were into, even if I didn't like them.

I love films that aren't just speaking to certain moments in the culture but are something that people can revisit.

There weren't a lot of 'Singin' in the Rain' fans in my age group.

I'd never studied film. I had movies that I loved and movie stars that I looked up to, but I really had not seen a lot of the great classic films that he felt like he wanted me to see before I took on such a huge role.