All About Eve (1950) and A Shot in the Dark (1964)
George Sanders
The title of What Happened, Miss Simone is taken from a line written by this 20th century American poet.
Maya Angelou
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Burt Bacharach
What they wanted most wasn't on the menu.
Diner
Frances McDormand
In Bull Durham, Annie recites lines from this 19th century American poet while seducing Nuke.
Walt Whitman
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Ennio Morricone
On the Waterfront (1954) and In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Rod Steiger
In the opening scene of Wonder Boys, there are notes on this James Joyce classic written on a chalkboard.
Ulysses
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Quincy Jones
What are you really worth?
Moneyball
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and All the President's Men (1974)
Robert Redford
Blood Simple got its title from this author's 1929 detective novel Red Harvest.
Dashiell Hammett
The Power of the Dog (2020)
Johnny Greenwood
It's love and murder at first sight!
North By Northwest
An American in Paris (1951) and The Band Wagon (1953)
Oscar Levant
In Wild, the only book Cheryl carries to the very end rather than burn is this author’s collection of poems entitled The Dream of Common Language.
Adrienne Rich
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
John Barry
What it means to be a Man.
The Power of the Dog