Top 100 Movies Are Quotes
#1. The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
Ben Hecht
#2. Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films are engaging in the same way as the comics are. It's no coincidence that the biggest movies are genre-related, whether it's Lord of the Rings or comic books.
Mark Millar
#3. My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.
Brett Ratner
#4. People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and there's bad little ones. The bad big ones have to make their money back, so they'll push them down your throat, but the little ones just disappear if they're bad.
Jon Favreau
#5. My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.
Shailene Woodley
#6. I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.
Judah Friedlander
#7. I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of ... Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.
Christopher Walken
#8. Movies are a couple of hours, while books transport you for days or weeks. You can live in the pages of a book.
Bella Andre
#9. You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
Sam Mendes
#11. Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.
Kyra Sedgwick
#12. The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
Stan Brakhage
#13. Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.
Sylvester Stallone
#14. Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.
Mark Ruffalo
#15. Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.
Frank Pierson
#16. Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
Rachel Griffiths
#17. A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.
Val Kilmer
#18. In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
Viggo Mortensen
#19. Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#20. A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.
Kirk Hammett
#21. Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.
David Walton
#22. 'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.
Channing Tatum
#23. This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.
Josh Hamilton
#24. I think the best movies are made not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's the color of your skin, or the politics that you've had, or the place that you come from.
Harrison Ford
#25. Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.
Terry Hayes
#26. I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.
Robert De Niro
#27. Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.
John Landis
#28. Movies are so weird. I don't believe anything until it's already done.
Rex Smith
#29. Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
Quentin Tarantino
#30. The novel ceases to be looked at as a novel. Such is the overwhelming power of motion pictures. Gore Vidal pointed out that the movies are the only thing anybody's really interested in. The association with movies and movie money can, and certainly did in my case, occlude a novel as a novel.
William Monahan
#31. The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.
Mark Waters
#32. The Movies have always been here. The Movies were here before God. Time is round like a reel of film. God hates the Movies because the Movies are the evidence of what He's done.
Steve Erickson
#33. As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.
Akiva Goldsman
#34. I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.
Michael Uslan
#35. But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.
Jeffrey Jones
#36. I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.
Joaquin Phoenix
#37. Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!
Anthony Mackie
#38. The best movies are rooted in reality.
Seth Gordon
#39. The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.
Sid Caesar
#40. Hackers in Hollywood movies are phenomenal; all they need to do is: "c: hack into fbi
Various
#41. My movies are not messed with by the studios.
Nancy Meyers
#42. The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
Damien Chazelle
#43. If books/stories and movies are going to be judge as for the personality of people so... Doctor Sleep and Nightmares and Dreamscapes... should make Stephen King the world top1 insane person, ever lived in the world.
Deyth Banger
#44. Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
Yahoo Serious
#45. I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.
Joe Dante
#46. Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.
Troy Duffy
#48. If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
Adam McKay
#49. Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
Harvey Fierstein
#50. Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.
Louis Leterrier
#51. Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
Octavia E. Butler
#52. Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee. Thus, mush.
Jane Espenson
#53. The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.
Christopher McQuarrie
#54. My favorite movies are love stories.
Tom Savini
#55. Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.
Martin Scorsese
#56. The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people ... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.
Roger Ebert
#57. Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
Viggo Mortensen
#58. There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#59. The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
Josh Hutcherson
#60. I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.
Channing Tatum
#61. It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
Todd Phillips
#62. People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.
Peter Hedges
#64. Now that I'm a professional writer it's a little more difficult to enjoy a movie if it's not well done and a lot of the horror movies are not great, but when something's really good, like I really loved The Conjuring. That just scared the bejesus out of me.
David Hayter
#65. I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.
Harvey Weinstein
#66. I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't ...
Adam Levin
#67. Some movies are what I would call murky. Just because it's murky doesn't make it artistic. It makes it hard to see.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#68. Some of my favorite movies are Hollywood movies. Hollywood is part of the cinematic spectrum. I nurture a healthy love-hate relationship with Hollywood.
Mike Leigh
#69. I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.
Eric Stoltz
#70. American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.
Helen Mirren
#71. I believe movies are better, the less you know going in.
Joe Cornish
#72. You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
Patrice Leconte
#73. I just try to be true to myself and write about things I'm passionate about. I think what most people don't like about movies is they can tell that most movies are a product, and they don't mean that much to the people who make them.
Judd Apatow
#74. Anyhow, even though I have this home theater, I love going out to the movies. Movies are meant to be experienced together.
Giorgio Armani
#75. Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
Larry Cohen
#76. For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.
Pauline Kael
#78. Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.
Robert Zemeckis
#79. I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here. Someone like Ryan Gosling shouldn't have to come back here because it's a Canadian movie. He should want to come back because some of the best movies are being made here.
Kevin Zegers
#80. All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
Victoria Aveyard
#81. There's a difference between actresses of color and actresses not of color. If you look at how big my movies are.
Regina King
#82. Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.
Jeremy Clarkson
#83. Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
Abel Ferrara
#84. Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.
Ridley Scott
#85. 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
#86. A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.
Christian Bale
#87. Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
Bassem Youssef
#88. In the future, I think movies are going to be more of data sets that viewers have a hand in controlling - where the narrative originates and what happens to the content.
Ryan Trecartin
#89. The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers
#90. Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.
John Carpenter
#91. As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university.
Chuck Klosterman
#92. In front of us, Annabelle and Aspen argue over whether black-and-white movies are amazing or archaic. Blue walks a few feet behind like he's waiting for the pair to transition from verbal zingers to hair pulling. He wants a front-row seat for that show, and I don't blame him.
Victoria Scott
#93. That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
Peter Bart
#94. Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.
Mary Harron
#95. They're pretty extreme, but I loved the two 'Human Centipede' films from Tom Six. Those movies are fun because they're well-made. They're crazy and psychotic and perverted and twisted, but they're really well-made.
Bill Moseley
#96. When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.
Sofia Coppola
#97. The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
Kevin Spacey
#98. I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'
Louis C.K.
#99. The man doesn't want me messing with it and, no offense, I wouldn't anger him. I've seen what he can do and it's the stuff horror movies are made of. Body part flailing, blood. Lots of blood and torture. (Berith)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#100. The people who do the scoring and the music for movies are very talented, really special people.
Claudia Christian
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