Home Movies Quotes

#1. My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

Lev Yilmaz

#2. Everybody should wish they had home movies of themselves, acting out their lunacy on LSD.

John Waters

#3. I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.

D. A. Pennebaker

#4. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

Steven Spielberg

#5. I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

Francine Prose

#6. I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.

Jonas Mekas

#7. I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

D. A. Pennebaker

#8. We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

Nathan Myhrvold

#9. There is no such thing as unlawful censorship in the home. Movies, magazines, television, videos, the Internet, and other media are there as guests and should only be welcomed when they are appropriate for family enjoyment.

M. Russell Ballard

#10. Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny.

Jane Birkin

#11. Evil Dead needs a very specific home. Movies are mostly unrated, but on television who the heck was doing that stuff? And now the doors opened a little bit with companies like Starz. They were the only suitor that was going to let us have content that was unrestricted.

Bruce Campbell

#12. I wish there was a device implanted in out brains to record memories, so we could play them back and watch them whenever we wanted, like old home movies.

Christine Zolendz

#13. I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.

Nancy Meyers

#14. We don't have home movies in my family. We have people's exhibit A.

Christopher Titus

#15. Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets

Thom Yorke

#16. I really hated school and so I just wanted to stay home and watch 'I Love Lucy' and watch the movies that inspired me to the point where we are sitting here.

Justin Long

#17. Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

Naomi Watts

#18. Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds.

Richard Corliss

#19. People who spend their lives like to go to parties and cinemas, sit at home and watch movies, TV Series, TV dramas, etc.They think this is life. But it is spending life not living life.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. I'm kind of a homebody. I like to sit at home and watch movies and eat good food.

Emilie De Ravin

#21. I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies.

Sara Paxton

#22. When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

Al Pacino

#23. For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

Jay Baruchel

#24. My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.

Becky G

#25. My priorities are really about creating balance in my home, making sure that I have enough time with my kids, making sure that I have the time to do the things that I want to do with my career, and to continue to make movies.

Nia Long

#26. People would ask me, 'Is he as funny at home as he is in the movies?' ... I would have to answer, 'Well, he can be funny. But he is also very serious. He has insomnia and if we him up early, he would bawl the hell out of me'.

Arthur Marx

#27. You have the power to pause stuff and you have the power to go to the bathroom. You can do whatever you want in your own home. It's a much more relaxed thing. It's more like a book, it seems to me. That's kind of the way I watch movies.

David Fincher

#28. I hate those movies, those books, where some guy gets to go off and have adventures and meanwhile the girl has to stay home and wait. I'm a feminist. I subscribe to Bust magazine, and I watch Buffy reruns. I don't believe in that kind of shit.

Kelly Link

#29. My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.

Susanna Kearsley

#30. I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.

Robert Rodriguez

#31. I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

Samuel L. Jackson

#32. In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

Eli Wallach

#33. I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

Damien Chazelle

#34. The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.

Stephen Colbert

#35. The copy editors drank cheap beer and seemed kind of bitter. About everything. But Lincoln felt at home with them. They all read too much, and watched too much TV, and argued about movies like they were things that had actually happened.

Rainbow Rowell

#36. When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.

Laurie Metcalf

#37. I spend days on my Xperia logging on Facebook chatting with my friends and family at home; I love listening to Rihanna and Pink and watching movies. Basically, anything that makes me smile, but most of my fans will know that I am always smiling!

Dominika Cibulkova

#38. My friends tell me I'm the most boring celebrity they know! A typical night for me is at home in California or watching movies in my pyjamas.

Amber Riley

#39. There are certain movies you go and see, and then after, you wanna go home and talk to your best friend and tell her that you really love her.

Miley Cyrus

#40. As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.

Brian Cox

#41. People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there.

Billy Bob Thornton

#42. I really don't go out at all; I just stay at home and watch movies and skateboard around the house.

Michael Angarano

#43. Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.

Lee Tamahori

#44. I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors.

Garry Marshall

#45. Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Oliver Stone

#46. I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week.

Charlotte Ronson

#47. My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.

Joe Dante

#48. It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

Denzel Washington

#49. In Poland, some people think that I'm kind of scandalous because I'm a woman who should stay at home with her kids instead of making movies about what I want and, even worse, addressing Polish taboos like church, homosexuals and history.

Malgorzata Szumowska

#50. I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair.

Chris Isaak

#51. This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility.

Siri Hustvedt

#52. My brother and I spent countless hours as kids playing with our dad's home camera, we would create little sketches and movies and talk shows. But it wasn't until I was 10 that I started considering that I could do it as a job.

Jade Hassoune

#53. I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

Lasse Hallstrom

#54. Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is.

Joseph Bologna

#55. You make a movie to entertain audiences. That's why you make a movie. The product sales is because people love the characters, and to me, that is a testament to how our movie has become so ingrained in family's homes all around the world and that's why I make movies.

John Lasseter

#56. My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

Kevin Bacon

#57. Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an American and you will realize that it is something strictly American to conceive a space that is filled with moving.

Gertrude Stein

#58. I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.

Marlon James

#59. I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs.

Terence Lewis

#60. I'm not a nerd, obviously. Do I look like one? I'm not someone who sits at home and doesn't like to go out, doesn't like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

Virat Kohli

#61. It gets boring at home. How many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on TV?

Bud Abbott

#62. 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

Jerry Orbach

#63. I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

Derek Luke

#64. Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Samuel Goldwyn

#65. I sit at home and read books. I watch movies. I watch television. I go and play golf. I don't go to nightclubs. I don't go out to dinner that often. I'm not a big party guy.

Samuel L. Jackson

#66. Anyhow, even though I have this home theater, I love going out to the movies. Movies are meant to be experienced together.

Giorgio Armani

#67. I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.

Charles Grodin

#68. I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

Fleur East

#69. Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.

Sam Worthington

#70. I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

Dakota Fanning

#71. It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

Bud Abbott

#72. I think people want to stay home and run movies with their whole family at home. It become a family hobby instead of going out to the theater, sad to say. But I think it's very good because it reaches millions that would never see these movies.

Debbie Reynolds

#73. I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.

Tim Heidecker

#74. My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#75. Our goal at Home Theater Films is to inspire and entertain our audience. We want to make great movies that everyone can enjoy and elevate them with contemporary, relatable characters that naturally demonstrate their faith in real world situations.

Corbin Bernsen

#76. I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the '30s.

Hugh Hefner

#77. I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.

Nayvadius Cash

#78. When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

Kevin Costner

#79. Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.

David Sedaris

#80. My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show two or three movies at home. But our house wasn't frequented by stars. My father's personal life was his personal life, and it was separate from his professional life.

Stanley R. Jaffe

#81. Comedy is really best when watched with other people, and I don't really understand people who sit at home watching comedy movies on Netflix.

Scott Aukerman

#82. People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.

David E. Kelley

#83. The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

David Chase

#84. I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.

Queen Latifah

#85. I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.

Casey Neistat

#86. Clearly, audiences are very accepting of A-list talent both giving them what they want - Tom Hanks is the most classic example - and then going on, from time to time, to do things that are unexpected. That's part of what makes people want to go to the movies and not just sit home.

Mark Canton

#87. My past films came out on home entertainment in the U.S., so the next question was, how do we get a theatrical in the U.S.? Well, you put a monster in it. That will do it, because people love monster movies.

Noel Clarke

#88. My home is Montreal. I will stay in Montreal and continue to make movies in Montreal. But it's also very healthy for Canadian filmmakers to work outside the country. You learn so much.

Denis Villeneuve

#89. I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.

Brie Larson

#90. I have the sick fantasy that whatever I see at the movies is going to happen to me at home. My bladder capacity increased tenfold after I saw "The Shining" because I was sure that if I went into the bathroom late at night, there would be a dead woman in the bathtub.

Bailey White

#91. You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

Vin Diesel

#92. Back home, we watch a lot of movies, and that was never available to us. When I came to America, I was like, 'No, it's really coming out this Friday? Not three months from now?'

Grace Gealey

#93. When you're doing movies, you're traveling all over the world and you really can't be home.

Amanda Bynes

#94. I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

Josh Ryan Evans

#95. I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.

Kathy Reichs

#96. I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

Patsy Kensit

#97. I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

Clive Owen

#98. Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps.

Kirk Hammett

#99. I don't watch scary movies. I mean it. Not ever. They make me scared. Scared of being alone in the house. Scared of being alone upstairs at night. Scared of walking home from work in the dark.

Laura Buzo

#100. I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

Zooey Deschanel