Famous Quotes
- The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
- Barbara Ehrenreich on Movies
- The only problem is I can't get into PG-13 Land. I just get stuck in R rated movies, which they would love us to make PG-13 movies but I never get there. But I think that you've got to make them different. You've got to switch them up.
- Joel Silver on Movies
- The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
- Bette Davis on Movies
- The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
- Joaquin Phoenix on Movies
- The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
- Marlee Matlin on Movies
- The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
- Ewan McGregor on Movies
- The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
- Sam Mendes on Movies
- The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.
- The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
- Rachel McAdams on Movies
- The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
- Laura Dern on Movies
- The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
- Meryl Streep on Movies
- The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.
- Joaquin Phoenix on Movies
- The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.
- Scott Caan on Movies
- The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
- George Lucas on Movies
- 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 on Movies
- The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.
- Jason Statham on Movies
- The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
- Alex Winter on Movies
- The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
- M. Night Shyamalan on Movies
- The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
- Alex Winter on Movies
- The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
- Charlton Heston on Movies
- The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
- Orlando Bloom on Movies
- The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.
- Ellen Barkin on Movies
- The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
- Josh Hutcherson on Movies
- The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
- Billy Joel on Movies
- Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
- Harvey Fierstein on Movies
- There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.
- Kiefer Sutherland on Movies
- There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.
- Seann William Scott on Movies
- There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
- Jennifer Aniston on Movies
- There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.
- Kevin Costner on Movies
- There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters what happens to them is not lifelike.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman on Movies
- There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.
- Christian Bale on Movies
- There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
- Natalie Portman on Movies
- There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.
- Jason Reitman on Movies
- There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.
- Antonio Banderas on Movies
- There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.
- Antonio Banderas on Movies
- There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.
- Jason Reitman on Movies
- There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
- Vera Farmiga on Movies
- There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
- Clint Eastwood on Movies
- There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.
- Michelle Pfeiffer on Movies
- There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Movies
- There's an electrical thing about movies.
- Oliver Stone on Movies
- There's definitely a large fan base for the 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter' movies that need their next fix.
- Josh Hutcherson on Movies
- There's more to life than movies.
- Paul Walker on Movies
- There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
- Bill Condon on Movies
- There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
- Will Rogers on Movies
- There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.
- Mike Mills on Movies
- There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.
- Chloe Sevigny on Movies
- There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
- Jeremy Renner on Movies
- They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.
- Julia Roberts on Movies
- Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
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