Famous Quotes
- It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.
- Kevin Smith on Movies
- James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
- Mark Wahlberg on Movies
- James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.
- Joe Morton on Movies
- January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
- Michael Caine on Movies
- Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.
- Jason Statham on Movies
- John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
- Carter Burwell on Movies
- Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
- Edward Norton on Movies
- Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.
- Adam Sandler on Movies
- Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.
- Harvey Weinstein on Movies
- Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
- Elvis Presley on Movies
- Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
- Jean Claude Van Damme on Movies
- Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.
- Antonio Banderas on Movies
- Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.
- Albert Brooks on Movies
- Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
- Eartha Kitt on Movies
- Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.
- Jonah Hill on Movies
- Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
- Orlando Bloom on Movies
- Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.
- Seth Rogen on Movies
- Luis Bunuel made great movies.
- Giancarlo Esposito on Movies
- Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.
- Tony Kushner on Movies
- Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
- Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.
- Antonio Banderas on Movies
- Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
- Maureen O'Hara on Movies
- Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.
- Julia Roberts on Movies
- Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
- J. J. Abrams on Movies
- Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.
- Robert Griffin III on Movies
- Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
- Dario Argento on Movies
- Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
- Chuck Palahniuk on Movies
- More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
- Marc Andreessen on Movies
- Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.
- Denis Leary on Movies
- 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 on Movies
- Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
- Manuel Puig on Movies
- Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.
- Morgan Freeman on Movies
- Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
- Roger Ebert on Movies
- Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
- Danny Boyle on Movies
- Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
- Roger Ebert on Movies
- Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
- Steve Martin on Movies
- Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
- Yahoo Serious on Movies
- Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
- Charlie Chaplin on Movies
- Movies are about escape.
- George A. Romero on Movies
- Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
- Harvey Fierstein on Movies
- Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
- Richard King on Movies
- Movies are an expensive business.
- Albert Brooks on Movies
- Movies are different from real life.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Movies
- Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.
- Robert De Niro on Movies
- Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
- Tim Burton on Movies
- Movies are like magic tricks.
- Jeff Bridges on Movies
- Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
- Richard Pryor on Movies
- Movies are movies, television is television.
- Dirk Benedict on Movies
- Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.
- Tina Turner on Movies
- 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 on Movies
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