1960s Cinema Quotes

'Rosemary's Baby' is a real New York movie, even though you wouldn't necessarily think of it as one, though I do.

My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'

I watched 'Psycho' a million times.

I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it.

I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early '60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda.

I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'

I love 'The Dirty Dozen.'

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when I was a kid were it not for the films of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.'

I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

I like 'Reanimator,' and I like 'Evil Dead 2.' But I really like the Corman movies from the late '60s and early '70s, and my favorite is 'The Mask of Red Death' with Vincent Price because - spoiler alert - but at the end of the movie, Vincent Price, he's the evil prince, and to kill him, his court just, like, dances at him.

Shoot The Piano Player' is one of my favourite films, though apparently it failed very badly when it released.

When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.

I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s.

I'm sure when 'Midnight Cowboy' came out, it took a couple of minutes to get used to the voice and the look of Dustin Hoffman, or to even recognize that it was Dustin Hoffman.

With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

My mom took me to see Goldfinger. My mom took me to see To Sir, With Love.

'Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

I think I will always feel a special relationship with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, because for me it was something very, very special. It was a modern opera, and to play the heroine in a film that became such a success at a young age, and learning from him when I was so young and impressionable - really it was one of my most important experiences.

I was probably the only 10-year-old who adored Sandy Dennis.

One of my favorite films is 'Psycho,' which I saw when I was 12.