Movies To Quotes

#1. I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

Bow Wow

#2. The rise of video on demand will make it possible for small movies to earn back costs via $9.95 24-hour rentals and for people in cities without independent cinemas to see the kind of movies they never have before. That's great - but on the other hand, that's TV.

David Edelstein

#3. I can't wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert 'Terminator 2' to 3D more than I want anything in the world.

Evan Goldberg

#4. I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, "I don't care if people don't see my movies." I always want people to see my movies.

John Waters

#5. I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

Laura Haddock

#6. We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven't seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.

David Fincher

#7. My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.

Maiwenn

#8. If you have that group of people who are both nice and also creative, then you have surprises like a room with monkeys in them. That has taken a very good scene and just made it a great scene. I want my movies to be visually interesting and to have a lot of energy and be colorful and full of life.

Richard Shepard

#9. I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

Nicolas Cage

#10. I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

Pia Zadora

#11. Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.

Roger Ebert

#12. I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.

Jon Favreau

#13. Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

Ranbir Kapoor

#14. I only make movies to finance my fishing.

Lee Marvin

#15. I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.

Saffron Burrows

#16. When I came off the Halloween movies, they were very stressful movies to make. That had been four very stressful years. I'm happy with how they turned out, but getting the end results took so much fighting with people and so much craziness, that at the end of it I was so burnt out.

Rob Zombie

#17. I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story.

Seamus McGarvey

#18. I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

Denis Leary

#19. For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.

Kristen Wiig

#20. I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

Gabriel Byrne

#21. One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

Stanley Kubrick

#22. You're too important, too special to throw everything away for a pure." Seth sighed, dropping his hands to mine. "Now, I brought us a movies to watch, the one that has sparkly vampires in it. I thought you'd be down for that.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#23. As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'

Felicity Huffman

#24. I grew up with comic books and cartoons and action movies. To find myself in the position to do work in these mediums is just an opportunity I couldn't have even asked for. It's just pure luck, really.

Hoon Lee

#25. I'm not the most sophisticated person. I'm not the smartest person in the world. But, I know what makes me excited about life, from Spielberg movies to Michael Jackson music videos to cartoons on Saturday mornings, which made my childhood.

Jon M. Chu

#26. I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Jodie Foster

#27. Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

Alexander Payne

#28. People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

Michael Shannon

#29. A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

Sofia Coppola

#30. Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Josh Trank

#31. I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Jodie Foster

#32. I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

Roger Ebert

#33. I've never made movies to reach millions of people.

Guy Maddin

#34. When my father made 'Jean de Florette' and 'Manon des Sources' back to back, everybody said, 'Why two movies?' But you need two movies to show how criminality evolves, and to tell the story: You can't show a man in love with so many women in one big biopic.

Thomas Langmann

#35. I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

Ridley Scott

#36. Movies, to him and the majority of the planet, are an enhancement to a life. The way a glass of wine complements a dinner. I'm the other way around. I'm the kind of person who eats a few bites of food so that my stomach can handle the full bottle of wine I'm about to drink.

Patton Oswalt

#37. All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

Harvey Weinstein

#38. I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

Anurag Kashyap

#39. I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

Mike Mills

#40. And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

Ridley Scott

#41. Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

Trisha Yearwood

#42. I'm a big horror fan. I'm a genre fan. I like to make these movies. They're my favorite kinds of movies to make.

Amber Heard

#43. I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

Richard Pryor

#44. I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#45. Everything is going well "Day One" book up to page 137, planning som new movies to watch in the near future, close to awesome and powerful quotes. Some new and awesome events... - And that's life, that's how it must be!

Deyth Banger

#46. What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.

Dianna Agron

#47. You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you have music from other people, usually from other movies, to give you a sense of what the mood is supposed to be, what the atmosphere is.

Duncan Jones

#48. I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

Hayden Panettiere

#49. My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#50. I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

Famke Janssen

#51. 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

#52. 'Noah' is an insult to Bible-believing Christians, an insult to the character of Noah and, most of all, an insult to the God of the Bible. As a result, I believe Hollywood will have a much harder time in marketing future biblically-themed movies to Christians.

Ken Ham

#53. Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.

Lee Daniels

#54. My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.

Alex Karpovsky

#55. I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.

Alex Kurtzman

#56. I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

Preston Sturges

#57. I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

Alex Winter

#58. There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

Ashton Kutcher

#59. A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget.

Audrey Tautou

#60. I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.

Denis Leary

#61. At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

Brett Ratner

#62. You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it.

Josh Hamilton

#63. We go for books and movies to escape the sad reality.

Jhing Bautista

#64. We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies. - Walt Disney

Austin Kleon

#65. I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

Brad Bird

#66. A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing.

Alfred Hitchcock

#67. You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.

Joss Whedon

#68. We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

Bob Dylan

#69. I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.

Robert Greene

#70. You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going.

Saul Zaentz

#71. I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

Nicolas Cage

#72. I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time, or something
and the money wasn't even that great. But I needed it, and ... they come back on television, those movies ... to haunt you. And it's a nightmare!

Lauren Bacall

#73. 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

Alfonso Cuaron

#74. I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.'

Mark Canton

#75. Who's there?" he called, then frowned. "Of course," he added, addressing the darkness all around, "even I, as a Shadowhunter, have seen enough movies to know that anyone who yells 'Who's there?' is going to be instantly killed.

Cassandra Clare

#76. Action movies to me are dramas with recognizable human beings that are in extraordinary situations.

Walter Hill

#77. Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only place. But now there's none of that mystique, and so there's less of a reason to buy a ticket.

Eva Mendes

#78. I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

Christopher Lambert

#79. We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.

Stephanie Zacharek

#80. I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.

Harmony Korine

#81. There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. So you're pretty lucky if you get one to even take your movie and it's pretty rare that they pay anything upfront.

John Sayles

#82. Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

Gianni Versace

#83. There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

Wesley Morris

#84. The whole business is changing dramatically, and the way fans follow and participate in movies, and make their own movies to emulate those movies, is profoundly different.

Wes Craven

#85. The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people.

Ivan Sutherland

#86. You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Tony Kushner

#87. We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

Christian Marclay

#88. When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all the talent that they have. You really have to give them several different kinds of roles, in completely different movies, to push them and to push yourself.

Robert Rodriguez

#89. I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.

Jonah Hill

#90. I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.

Rutina Wesley

#91. Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

Alfie Kohn

#92. I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.

Ted Sarandos

#93. I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

Ice Cube

#94. People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

Laurel Nakadate

#95. I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

Mark Wahlberg

#96. I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.

Amy Heckerling

#97. Just before I look under my bed, I always get a little cold feeling, as if part of me expects to find something staring back at me.
I've probably seen too many Hollywood movies to have any hopes of ever cultivating a healthy relationship with the underside of my bed.

Graham Parke

#98. Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

Samuel L. Jackson

#99. I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

Jonah Hill

#100. I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep.

Kip Thorne