Obvious Movie Quotes

#1. The movie creaked along, obvious and mediocre plot. Mediocre script, mediocre music. They ought to have sealed the thing in a time capsule and marked "Late 20th Century Mediocrity" and buried it somewhere.

Haruki Murakami

#2. And why do the main characters always have to hate each other at the beginning of the movie? Like, hello, red flag. It's so obvious they're going to get together.

Catherine McKenzie

#3. I felt as if my parents had pushed me into the street, that a deal had been made and I was being passed into the hands of a man. At least he is a good man, I thought, even if his hands are not as clean as they could be.

Tracy Chevalier

#4. Martin Scorsese is doing a 3D movie (Hugo Cabret). A lot of amazing filmmakers are. Not just the obvious of Jim Cameron, but Spielberg is doing it and Peter Jackson has worked in it. In the hands of those types of people, it will just keep getting better and better.

Rob Letterman

#5. No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

Trey Parker

#6. Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

Hannah Fidell

#7. Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

John Oliver

#8. If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster."

Brian Regan

#9. It's plainly obvious that Jay is about as homosexual as Gerard Butler in the movie 300.

L. H. Cosway

#10. No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

Napoleon Hill

#11. The world is not a Disney movie where villains are obvious and one-dimensional.

Maggie Young

#12. Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

Friedrich Naumann

#13. When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.

Anton Corbijn

#14. Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

#15. Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.

Connie Willis

#16. Whole food that typically has only one ingredient, like "brown rice," or no ingredient label at all, as with fruits and vegetables!

Lisa Leake

#17. Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.

Joan Didion

#18. It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

Rudy Rucker

#19. What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style.

Austin Kleon

#20. The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic.

Sam Mendes

#21. I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

Ellen Page