Famous Quotes
- When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.
- Francis Ford Coppola on Movies
- When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.
- Harvey Weinstein on Movies
- When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.
- Ellen Barkin on Movies
- When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.
- Christopher Walken on Movies
- When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
- Kiefer Sutherland on Movies
- When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
- Keanu Reeves on Movies
- When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?
- Harvey Weinstein on Movies
- When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.
- James Franco on Movies
- When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.
- Vin Diesel on Movies
- When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
- Barbet Schroeder on Movies
- When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
- Sydney Pollack on Movies
- When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
- Vincent Cassel on Movies
- When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
- Daniel Craig on Movies
- When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.
- Kristen Wiig on Movies
- Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
- Frank Ocean on Movies
- Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
- Daniel Day-Lewis on Movies
- Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
- Natalie Portman on Movies
- Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.
- Alice Cooper on Movies
- Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
- Samuel Goldwyn on Movies
- Why should you have to atone for making big movies?
- Emily Blunt on Movies
- With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
- Patrick Wilson on Movies
- With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.
- Harrison Ford on Movies
- Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.
- Mindy Kaling on Movies
- Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.
- Seann William Scott on Movies
- Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
- Orlando Bloom on Movies
- Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
- Ben Affleck on Movies
- You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
- Mary Schmich on Movies
- You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
- Mary Schmich on Movies
- You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
- John Malkovich on Movies
- You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
- Tony Kushner on Movies
- You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.
- Cameron Diaz on Movies
- You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
- Clive Owen on Movies
- You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
- Halle Berry on Movies
- You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.
- Harry Connick, Jr. on Movies
- You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman on Movies
- You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
- Sam Mendes on Movies
- You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
- Marco Rubio on Movies
- You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
- Steve Martin on Movies
- You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.
- Christopher Nolan on Movies
- You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.
- Kevin Smith on Movies
- You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.
- Daniel Craig on Movies
- You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
- Hank Azaria on Movies
- You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.
- Harvey Weinstein on Movies
- You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.
- Lawrence Kasdan on Movies
- You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
- Vin Diesel on Movies
- You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
- You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
- Joaquin Phoenix on Movies
- You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
- J. D. Salinger on Movies
- You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
- Ben Affleck on Movies
- You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
- Daniel Craig on Movies
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