Movies Quotes
I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.
I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.
I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.
I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a Jurassic Park.
I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.
Some of my favorite movies are Hollywood movies. Hollywood is part of the cinematic spectrum. I nurture a healthy love-hate relationship with Hollywood.
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
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.
I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.
The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.
I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse
How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.
Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.
Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.
As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.
Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.
Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?
I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.
Like the rabid fans of sports, the same goes for fans and their actors, TV shows and movies. You love what you love, and it bonds you with others who love the same thing.