Famous Quotes
- And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.
- Niklas Zennstrom on Movies
- And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.
- Nicolas Cage on Movies
- And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
- Halle Berry on Movies
- Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.
- John Cusack on Movies
- As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.
- Corey Feldman on Movies
- As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.
- Jason Reitman on Movies
- As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
- Tony Kushner on Movies
- At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
- John Hughes on Movies
- Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.
- Greg Kinnear on Movies
- Audiences want to see intelligent movies.
- Harvey Weinstein on Movies
- Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.
- Javier Bardem on Movies
- Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
- Jack Black on Movies
- Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
- Zoe Saldana on Movies
- Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.
- Selma Blair on Movies
- Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
- Drew Barrymore on Movies
- Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
- Liam Neeson on Movies
- Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.
- Joan Didion on Movies
- Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
- Tom Sizemore on Movies
- Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.
- Jason Reitman on Movies
- Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.
- Jonah Hill on Movies
- Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
- Joseph Barbera on Movies
- Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
- Conrad Hall on Movies
- Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
- Javier Bardem on Movies
- Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
- Tom Clancy on Movies
- Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.
- But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.
- Julie Taymor on Movies
- But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.
- Christopher Nolan on Movies
- But most good movies have a gun in them.
- David Sedaris on Movies
- But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
- Bruce Springsteen on Movies
- But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.
- David Cronenberg on Movies
- By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
- Roger Ebert on Movies
- By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.
- Albert Brooks on Movies
- Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
- Martin Scorsese on Movies
- Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
- Vincent Cassel on Movies
- Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
- Jean-Luc Godard on Movies
- Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
- Yann Martel on Movies
- Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
- Pauline Kael on Movies
- Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
- Roger Ebert on Movies
- Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
- Mike Myers on Movies
- Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.
- Oliver Stone on Movies
- Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.
- Diane Kruger on Movies
- Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.
- Vincent Cassel on Movies
- Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
- James Broughton on Movies
- De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
- Christopher Meloni on Movies
- Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
- Kate Hudson on Movies
- Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.
- Chris Rock on Movies
- Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
- Alexander Payne on Movies
- Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
- Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
- Federico Fellini on Movies
- Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
- Alexander Payne on Movies
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