Famous Quotes
- If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.
- Tim Heidecker on Movies
- If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
- Quentin Tarantino on Movies
- If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers.
- Bradley Cooper on Movies
- If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
- Halle Berry on Movies
- If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.
- Ethan Hawke on Movies
- If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.
- Greg Kinnear on Movies
- If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.
- Chris Evans on Movies
- If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.
- Matt Damon on Movies
- In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.
- Charlie Kaufman on Movies
- In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.
- Josh Hutcherson on Movies
- In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.
- Channing Tatum on Movies
- In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.
- In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.
- Kevin Smith on Movies
- In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.
- Jeff Bridges on Movies
- In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel on Movies
- In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.
- John Hench on Movies
- In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
- Daniel H. Wilson on Movies
- In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.
- Wesley Morris on Movies
- In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.
- Minnie Driver on Movies
- In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
- Wallace Shawn on Movies
- In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.
- Christian Bale on Movies
- In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
- In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
- Stephen Sondheim on Movies
- In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
- Zach Braff on Movies
- It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.
- Morgan Freeman on Movies
- It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.
- John Leeson on Movies
- It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
- Jon Landau on Movies
- It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
- Carla Gugino on Movies
- It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.
- Emily Blunt on Movies
- It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.
- Chris Evans on Movies
- It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.
- John Cusack on Movies
- It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.
- It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.
- Kristen Stewart on Movies
- It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
- Scarlett Johansson on Movies
- It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
- Taylor Lautner on Movies
- It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.
- Ethan Hawke on Movies
- It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.
- Selma Blair on Movies
- It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.
- Jamie Bell on Movies
- It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.
- It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.
- John Cusack on Movies
- It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
- Vincent D'Onofrio on Movies
- It's like, if you can't focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don't go to the movies! You've got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!
- Ginnifer Goodwin on Movies
- It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
- It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
- Kristen Stewart on Movies
- It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.
- Denzel Washington on Movies
- It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
- Nathan Fillion on Movies
- It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.
- Jason Statham on Movies
- It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
- James Wolcott on Movies
- It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
- Andy Warhol on Movies
- It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?
- Jean Claude Van Damme on Movies
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