Movies Quotes

The most effective 3D movies I have ever seen are the animated movies because they are designed.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I might as well direct one myself!"

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

I do enjoy animated movies.

I've done a lot of bad TV and bad movies. I've also done some really great things.

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

I don't know where the hell I'll be in 5 years. Maybe I'll be producing movies maybe I'll be on a corner selling apples. I don't know, but I'm having a hell of a lot of fun.

Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.

One of the great things about doing animated movies is that you don't have to dress up or put on make-up.

I have a huge relationship with Brazil; it's almost a love affair, I would say. And to me, to introduce that specific martial art like capoeira in Hollywood movies was something important to me.

Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.

I really love the Marvel universe, one of my favorite is Daredevil. I really love also the Punisher and I don't understand why they made so many bad movies on that character.

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

How long is forever?Sometimes just one second

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

Reading a book is like living a deep and fulfilling life. Watching a movie is like being a paralyzed person: watching others live their lives while you observe from the sidelines.

If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

Never compare your love story to those you watch in movies. They're written by scriptwriters, yours is written by God.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.