“Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies.”
Johnny Depp

“As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.”
Alan Ladd

“The moment an audience starts to itch around you have lost them.”
Fritz Lang

“I know audiences feed on crap, but I cannot believe we are so lacking that we cannot dish it up to them with some trace of originality.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“People are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.”
Nick Cassavetes