My Favorite Films of the 1960s

"Do you go out with friends?"
"Well, a boy's best friend is his mother."

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Joseph Stefano
Music by Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography by John L. Russell
Editing by George Tomasini

"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."

Directed by Sergio Leone
Written by Sergio Leone, Luciano Vincenzoni, Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli
Music by Ennio Morricone
Cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli
Editing by Eugenio Alabiso and Nino Baragli

"They're coming to get you, Barbra!"

Directed by George A. Romero
Written by George A. Romero and John A. Russo
Music by
Cinematography by George A. Romero
Editing by George A. Romero and Hugh C. Daly

"By the way, you know anything about a man going around playing the harmonica? He's somebody you'd remember. Instead of talking, he plays. And when he better play, he talks."

Directed by Sergio Leone
Written by Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati, Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci
Music by Ennio Morricone
Cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli
Editing by Nino Baragli

"What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men."

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Written by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson
Music by Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography by Conrad L. Hall
Editing by Sam O'Steen

"I like the way I look. Makes me feel good, it does. And women like me, goddammit. Hell, the only one thing I ever been good for is lovin'. Women go crazy for me, that's a really true fact! Ratso, hell! Crazy Annie they had to send her away!"

Directed by John Schlesinger
Written by Waldo Salt
Music by John Barry
Cinematography by Adam Holender
Editing by Hugh A. Robertson

"Now listen, hear me good mama. Please. Don't make me have to send you to jail... There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time."

Directed by Norman Jewison
Written by Stirling Silliphant
Music by Quincy Jones
Cinematography by Haskell Wexler
Editing by Hal Ashby

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."

Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Written by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George
Music by Laurie Johnson
Cinematography by Gilbert Taylor
Editing by Anthony Harvey

"There was a time when the nights were for sleeping. Deep, dreamless sleep. To sleep and wake unafraid."

Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Written by Ingmar Bergman
Music by Lars Johan Werle
Cinematography by Sven Nykvist
Editing by Ulla Ryghe

"Maybe I'm not such a high-class piece of property right now. And a 25% slice of something big is better than a 100% slice of nothing."

Directed by Robert Rossen
Written by Robert Rossen and Sidney Carroll
Music by Kenyon Hopkins
Cinematography by Eugen Schüfftan
Editing by Dede Allen

"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"

Directed by Guy Hamilton
Written by Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn
Music by John Barry
Cinematography by Ted Moore
Editing by Peter R. Hunt

"I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it."

Directed by Sergio Leone
Written by Sergio Leone, Adriano Bolzoni, Mark Lowell, Víctor Andrés Catena and Jaime Comas Gil
Music by Ennio Morricone
Cinematography by Massimo Dallamano and Federico G. Larraya
Editing by Roberto Cinquini and Alfonso Santacana

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me!"

Directed by Mike Nichols
Written by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
Music by
Cinematography by Robert Surtees
Editing by Sam O'Steen

"Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over."

Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
Music by
Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth
Editing by Ray Lovejoy

"They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."

Directed by Dennis Hopper
Written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Terry Southern
Music by
Cinematography by László Kovács
Editing by Donn Cambern

"Alive or dead? It's your choice."

Directed by Sergio Leone
Written by Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella and Luciano Vincenzoni
Music by Ennio Morricone
Cinematography by Massimo Dallamano
Editing by Eugenio Alabiso and Giorgio Serrallonga

"Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something."

Directed by Terence Young
Written by Richard Maibaum
Music by John Barry
Cinematography by Ted Moore
Editing by Peter R. Hunt

"A hundred and one? My, where did they all come from?"
"Oh ho, Pongo, you old rascal!"

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske and Wolfgang Reitherman
Written by Bill Peet
Music by George Bruns
Cinematography by
Editing by Roy M. Brewer Jr. and Donald Halliday

"Calm down, boys. *This time* they won't catch us."

Directed by Knut Bohwim
Written by Erik Balling and Henning Bahs
Music by Egil Monn-Iversen
Cinematography by Mattis Mathiesen
Editing by Leif Erlsboe

"You sell whatever you want, but don't sell it here tonight."

Directed by Peter Yates
Written by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner
Music by Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography by William A. Fraker
Editing by Frank P. Keller

"Oh my word. What's the matter with him? Is that a rock he's eating?"

Directed by Ivo Caprino
Written by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe
Music by Gunnar Sønstevold
Cinematography by Ivo Caprino and Finn Bergan
Editing by

"That's a Smith & Wesson and you've had your six."

Directed by Terence Young
Written by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood and Berkely Mather
Music by Monty Norman
Cinematography by Ted Moore
Editing by Peter R. Hunt

"How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?"

Directed by Mel Brooks
Written by Mel Brooks
Music by John Morris
Cinematography by Joseph F. Coffey
Editing by Ralph Rosenblum

"Kid, there's something I ought to tell you. I never shot anybody before."
"One hell of a time to tell me!"

Directed by George Roy Hill
Written by William Goldman
Music by Burt Bacharach
Cinematography by Conrad L. Hall
Editing by John C. Howard and Richard C. Meyer

"My understanding of women only goes as far as the pleasure. When it comes to the pain I'm like any other bloke - I don't want to know."

Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Written by Bill Naughton
Music by Sonny Rollins
Cinematography by Otto Heller
Editing by Thelma Connell