- A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
- Stanley Kubrick on Movies
- A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
- Jean Cocteau on Movies
- A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
- Orson Welles on Movies
- A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
- Alfred Hitchcock on Movies
- A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
- Clive Owen on Movies
- A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
- Jason Statham on Movies
- A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
- Alfred Hitchcock on Movies
- A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.
- Tim Heidecker on Movies
- A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.
- Anna Chlumsky on Movies
- A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.
- Joel Silver on Movies
- A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
- Roger Ebert on Movies
- A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.
- Louis C. K. on Movies
- A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
- Errol Morris on Movies
- A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
- A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.
- Josh Radnor on Movies
- A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
- Jean-Luc Godard on Movies
- A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
- Samuel Goldwyn on Movies
- Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
- Danny Boyle on Movies
- Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
- Bill Condon on Movies
- Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
- Mary Pickford on Movies
- Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald on Movies
- After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
- All I do is go to the movies.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel on Movies
- All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
- Samuel L. Jackson on Movies
- All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.
- Michael Haneke on Movies
- All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?
- Jonah Hill on Movies
- All my good movies, nobody sees.
- Chris Evans on Movies
- All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.
- Harvey Weinstein on Movies
- All my movies are achingly personal.
- Quentin Tarantino on Movies
- All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.
- Harvey Weinstein on Movies
- All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
- Tony Scott on Movies
- All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.
- Thomas Lennon on Movies
- All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.
- Mark Wahlberg on Movies
- All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.
- Keira Knightley on Movies
- Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
- Dean Koontz on Movies
- Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
- Johnny Depp on Movies
- American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
- Todd Gitlin on Movies
- American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
- Tom Hooper on Movies
- And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.
- Ridley Scott on Movies
- And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.
- Christian Bale on Movies
- And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
- Harvey Fierstein on Movies
- And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.
- Mike Myers on Movies
- And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.
- Jason Statham on Movies
- And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
- Douglas Sirk on Movies
- 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
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