American movie Quote by Roger Ebert

“There’s nothing American audiences like more than a tragedy with a happy ending.”

— Marcus Berkmann

“The American character, and the American dream, could never be disentangled, and ultimately the latter would go only as far as the former would…

— Anonymous

I knew that there was an aspect to this story that was beyond the typical and that it was something very important about America,…

— Harrison Ford

“How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pretty close. Grotesque melodrama? Certainly. Black comedy? Your point of…

— Richard Matheson

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”

— Nikita Allgire

I find most American films annoy me because their third act tends to be tying up loose ends and returning to moral values and…

— David Mackenzie

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We all are characters in a movie.”

— Vivake Pathak

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put…

— Chris Claremont

“Why is it dark in cinemas? So that the compulsive force of our involvement may be hidden.”

— David Thomson

“Movies are not good or bad because of their subjects but because of their treatments of their subjects. Any plot can be made into…

— Roger Ebert