Quotes About Movies

#1. You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.

Steven Shainberg

#2. Aaron, we came here to find the Didot, not to spend our money on hotel movies! You're lucky I didn't plan for us to sleep outside or something!

Embee

#3. Boys," Lindsay agreed, nodding. "What doesn't get lost in translation?"
"Things with the letter X in front of them," Rachel posited. "Like X-Box. And X-rated movies.

Nenia Campbell

#4. Strange, how in all those apocalyptic movies, when their society breaks down into lawlessness and anarchy, Canada is always the haven of safety, the place people want to escape to.

Jenifer Mohammed

#5. I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.

Dakota Johnson

#6. I'd actually read the 'Twilight' books and seen the movies, and I was a fan.

Judi Shekoni

#7. 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

#8. Each day I'd wake up to a stream of strangers' most important life questions and concerns. It was like knowing the plots to countless movies but never being able to see the ending.

Greg Dybec

#9. The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.

Bruce Campbell

#10. I always loved television. I always loved movies.

Dave Annable

#11. Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

John Cusack

#12. They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

Alex Winter

#13. I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.

Tony D'Souza

#14. OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

Jack Nicholson

#15. I've been fascinated by dreams my whole life, since I was a kid, and I think the relationship between movies and dreams is something that's always interested me.

Christopher Nolan

#16. I made movies all the time when I was a kid.

Danny McBride

#17. I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

Edward Norton

#18. I loved going to films, but as far as a movie buff, when I came into the movies at 16, life changed a little bit for me, from an onlooker to a person that lived within the industry. So now I would call myself a different sort of fan.

Debbie Reynolds

#19. If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

Akira Kurosawa

#20. Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.

Mark Canton

#21. Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years.

Eileen Myles

#22. Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.

Norman Jewison

#23. Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

Mike Myers

#24. I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

Steven Soderbergh

#25. I enjoy sports movies that don't sugarcoat. One thing that irritates me about sports movies is that they're like, 'The magic of the ball,' and 'The magic of the stadium.' It ain't that magical. When you get hit coming across the middle at 25 miles per hour, the magic's over.

Terry Crews

#26. I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. I'm really drawn to those as well. All different genres.

Liana Liberato

#27. We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed by rippling six packs and forcing an image down someone's throat trying to prove masculinity. Whereas I think true masculinity comes from having a strong sense of self.

Theo James

#28. As a producer, what you want to do is make the next hit. But you also want to lead the audience into wanting to watch different movies. You have to vary your content.

Michelle Yeoh

#29. I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

Abbas Kiarostami

#30. I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

Ben Affleck

#31. If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.

Vince Vaughn

#32. You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year ... somewhere.

Charles Durning

#33. Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

Mario Lopez

#34. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

Spike Jonze

#35. When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Jackie Chan

#36. 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

#37. I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

Christopher Walken

#38. They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

Adam Garcia

#39. I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.

Jennifer Hudson

#40. All the movies with young people were about wanting sex; all the movies with old people were about wanting sex. He would watch these films and feel defeated. When did you get to stop wanting to have sex?

Hanya Yanagihara

#41. I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.

Harmony Korine

#42. I believe that I'm going to have a long career, as long as I want, and I think by me going out into the world living a little bit made me ... gave me more depth, so when I do go, going into movies is much easier for me.

Chris Tucker

#43. The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Alex Winter

#44. And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made.

James Ponsoldt

#45. As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.'

Cliff Burton

#46. I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

David Chase

#47. I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

Colleen Atwood

#48. I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'

Nicolas Cage

#49. I really like Blade. I wish people would make hard R-rated fantasy movies again. It's completely irrelevant, but people should do that more. I haven't seen that many vampire things.

Robert Pattinson

#50. I've been in a lot of cult movies, but I've been very fortunate to have been involved in projects that people remember.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#51. Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Mike Myers

#52. I'm just a movie fan. I used to go to the movies just to watch movies.

Debbie Reynolds

#53. In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies.

Wes Craven

#54. It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

Emily Blunt

#55. I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be
great.

Joan Chen

#56. To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

Christopher Nolan

#57. I like so many different kinds of chick flicks. I like rom-coms, I like female friendship movies.

Drew Barrymore

#58. Prose is an art form, movies and acting in general are art forms, so is music, painting, graphics, sculpture, and so on. Some might even consider classic games like chess to be an art form. Video games use elements of all of these to create something new. Why wouldn't video games be an art form?

Sam Lake

#59. I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Antoine Fuqua

#60. I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in movies, a glance from someone's eyes will tell you the whole story in a few seconds.

Stephen Sondheim

#61. Personally, I'm a real wimp with scary movies. I get so scared.

Keri Russell

#62. I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Victoria Justice

#63. Forty-two percent of all that was produced in the world was produced in the United States. America made 80 percent of the world's movies and 85 percent of its cars.

Bill Bryson

#64. 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

#65. I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

Charlie Kaufman

#66. I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

Alex Winter

#67. I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

Joaquin Phoenix

#68. Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.

Mike Myers

#69. My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

Michael Douglas

#70. The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

Morgan Brittany

#71. The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

Gwendoline Christie

#72. Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.

Akira Kurosawa

#73. My love of movies started when I was 7 years old, living in a small town, going to the movies all the time, and finding the people in the movies more interesting than the people in my small town. Also, at that time, it wasn't that easy to find out about movies.

Robert Osborne

#74. I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies.

William Peter Blatty

#75. [I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?"

Ernie Pyle

#76. The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

#77. I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends and family. I try to spend time with the ones that I love and work as hard as possible.

Justin Bartha

#78. I try to watch as many movies as possible within a group setting instead of just in front of my laptop. It's better to watch something and chat about it with your programming peers afterward.

Tim League

#79. On the TV he found cartoons and movies, music videos and game shows, repeat broadcasts and reruns, but there was nothing current, and no news. Many channels were just blank, or displayed brightly coloured test cards.

A. Ashley Straker

#80. I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#81. Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.

Paul Walker

#82. I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

Karolyn Grimes

#83. I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

Doug Liman

#84. The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.

Harrison Ford

#85. This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.

Michel Hazanavicius

#86. Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like 'Ball of Fire' and 'Double Indemnity.' I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.

Richard LaGravenese

#87. When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

J.J. Abrams

#88. Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

Ben Affleck

#89. In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.

Donnie Yen

#90. I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

Francois Truffaut

#91. I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.

Mark Duplass

#92. I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them. I don't like all the singing, dancing and all the dramatic crying. I have never seen a Bollywood film in my life.

Russell Peters

#93. All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

Keira Knightley

#94. I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.

Corin Nemec

#95. Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.

Cassandra Peterson

#96. There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

Pierce Brosnan

#97. I don't ever want to stick myself in one category. I do really love making movies, but the thing about live performances is you don't have to wait around. Literally,you have to wait to see what the reaction is to the film, so it's a slower process. But it is enjoyable.

Jim Carrey

#98. People always say to me, "What's wrong with Hollywood? They don't want to make female-driven movies." And that's not where the problem lies. It lies with us, in society. When we make these movies, nobody goes to see them.

Charlize Theron

#99. I'm perfectly happy to have the reputation as a comedian. I love comedies, I would love to be doing more comedies. But I also feel like I hit the limit on playing the girlfriend type in a lot of rom-coms that aren't actually rom-coms, but guy movies that happen to have girls in them.

Elizabeth Banks

#100. Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson