Quotes About What Makes A Good Movie

#1. Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

Rosalind Russell

#2. 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

#3. What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#4. A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie.

Ice Cube

#5. unbelievable fairy tale ever. And now, people read those BDSM books like they're going out of style because it makes them wet. That sure as fuck doesn't make it a good novel. A porno movie will make them wet too, but it sure doesn't mean it's a good movie. I fucking swear," he said.

Scott Hildreth

#6. More than most men, he valued his name-I only hoped that given time, it would once more have value.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. Just because a movie is satisfactory means that the person who makes it is satisfactory. One can make a wonderful movie but still not be a wonderful person. In terms of interviews, it's probably not a good idea, because moviemakers tend not to tell the truth, even when asked a question.

Mamoru Oshii

#8. I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Matt Damon

#9. Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.

Gina Philips

#10. When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.

Ice Cube

#11. There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

Shelley Duvall

#12. Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

Margaret Murie

#13. I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

Andrew Stanton

#14. I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.

Garry Shandling

#15. In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#16. I'm the first one in line to go watch 'Spider-Man', but there's definitely something in me that makes me want to go to a movie and see something that makes me feel good about life.

America Ferrera

#17. On the seat beside him, in between him and his father, Ryan's severed hand is resting on a bed of ice in an eight-quart Styrofoam cooler.

Dan Chaon

#18. What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#19. (Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly.

Roger Ebert

#20. Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

Garret Dillahunt

#21. People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good.

Mark Zuckerberg

#22. A script is just a script. A good script can be a bad movie, so easily. It's the process that makes it good. You need a good script, don't get me wrong, but you need all those other things to make a good movie. You really do.

Joel Surnow

#23. I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.

Gail Sheehy

#24. Self-sacrifice usually contains an unspoken demand for payment.

Mason Cooley

#25. A good preview makes you can't wait to see the whole movie.

A.D. Posey

#26. Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.

Michael B. Jordan

#27. I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

Ike Barinholtz

#28. I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.

Colin Trevorrow

#29. I never...." she says between kisses, "got to kiss your hurt away..." Another kiss.

"when we were little..." her lips move to my forehead. "and I always wanted to." ~ Sophie

Chelsea Fine

#30. Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment,

Sarah

#31. I suppose once in a while, a filmmaker makes a movie that's more than just a sum of its parts, more than good acting or good filmmaking. It's something else that has nothing to do with what you've done. This is in 1999, made by people in 1999 for people in 1999 about people in 1999.

Sam Mendes

#32. Gray hair is gray hair.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him.

Jennifer Connelly

#34. It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

Warren Beatty