000 Movies Quotes

#1. There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.

John Sayles

#2. Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

#3. I want to make, like, 8,000 movies.

Clara Mamet

#4. When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experience - I was able to get $25,000 together, and that film was 'The Brothers McMullen.'

Edward Burns

#5. On the top of my desk there are initials, carved into the wood, and dates ... This carving, done with a pencil dug many times into the warn varnish of the desk, has the pathos of all vanished civilizations. It's like a handprint on stone. Whoever made this was once alive.

Margaret Atwood

#6. I see myself as a bridge-builder who can understand both sides.

Julian Castro

#7. 'Beverly Hills Cop' opened up a whole world. I got the television show and movies, and I would go sign autographs for one hour and get paid $25,000.

Bronson Pinchot

#8. All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

#9. I don't feel comfortable doing movies. It's not what I trained to do. I trained to be a theater actress. You put me on a stage in front of 2,000 people, I know what to do.

Anne Hathaway

#10. In Greece we're too poor to go to psychiatrists
we have friends instead.

Melina Mercouri

#11. There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love.

Alexandra Fuller

#12. With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.

Dan Hill

#13. The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

H.L. Mencken

#14. There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!'

Rick Moranis

#15. When I'm really frustrated with things," she giggles " ... I like to get online and change things in Wikipedia!"
This, bitch ... is weird.

C.J. Roberts

#16. Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.

Max Von Sydow

#17. If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#18. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.

Jean Anouilh

#19. When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.

Matthew Polly

#20. but yet I was bound in the wings of the temptation, and the wind would carry me away. I thought also of Saul, and of the evil spirit that did possess him: and did greatly fear that my condition was the same with that of his. 1 Sam. x.

John Bunyan

#21. In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.

Tom Shadyac

#22. Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

Frederik Willem De Klerk

#23. I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

John Sayles

#24. I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.

Oren Moverman

#25. In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Emma Goldman

#26. The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

Christopher Guest