Famous Quotes
- So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
- Christina Aguilera on Movies
- So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.
- Jodie Foster on Movies
- Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
- Liam Neeson on Movies
- Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.
- Abbas Kiarostami on Movies
- Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
- Marilyn Monroe on Movies
- Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
- Haruki Murakami on Movies
- Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
- Javier Bardem on Movies
- Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
- Dean Koontz on Movies
- Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.
- Ginnifer Goodwin on Movies
- Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
- Dennis Quaid on Movies
- Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
- Edward Zwick on Movies
- Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.
- Francis Ford Coppola on Movies
- Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.
- Melissa Rosenberg on Movies
- Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.
- Matt Damon on Movies
- Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.
- Britney Spears on Movies
- Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.
- Kristen Stewart on Movies
- Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
- Julie Bowen on Movies
- That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.
- Matt Damon on Movies
- The best movies are simple.
- Shia LaBeouf on Movies
- The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.
- Helen Hunt on Movies
- The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.
- Michael Mandelbaum on Movies
- The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
- Joel Silver on Movies
- The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.
- Joel Silver on Movies
- The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.
- Clive Owen on Movies
- The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
- M. Night Shyamalan on Movies
- The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
- George A. Romero on Movies
- The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.
- The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.
- Greg Kinnear on Movies
- The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.
- Lawrence Kasdan on Movies
- The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock on Movies
- The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
- Idris Elba on Movies
- The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.
- David Cronenberg on Movies
- The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
- Vanessa Paradis on Movies
- The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
- Will Rogers on Movies
- The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
- John Cusack on Movies
- The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.
- Christina Ricci on Movies
- The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.
- Jodie Foster on Movies
- The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Movies
- The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.
- The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
- Roger Ebert on Movies
- The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
- Sam Mendes on Movies
- The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.
- Lawrence Kasdan on Movies
- The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
- Mary Schmich on Movies
- The movies were custard compared to politics.
- Nancy Reagan on Movies
- The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
- The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.
- The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.
- The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
- Elvis Presley on Movies
- The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'
- Alexander Payne on Movies
- The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
- Ben Affleck on Movies
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