movies

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘movies’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.” -Zoe Kazan

    (click to view listing)

  • “I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.” -Alex Winter

    (click to view listing)

  • “I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.” -Kat Dennings

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “There’s some movies I watch, they’re kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.” -Mike Mills

    (click to view listing)

  • “What bugs me is that movies don’t reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don’t treasure women as they get older.” -Jill Clayburgh

    (click to view listing)

  • “James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.” -Joe Morton

    (click to view listing)

  • “What I don’t like are pompous, pretentious movies.” -Peter Jackson

    (click to view listing)

  • “Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.” -Laura Dern

    (click to view listing)

  • “I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.” -Mary-Kate Olsen

    (click to view listing)

  • “Unfortunately, ‘chick flick’ has become a term to describe most movies that I don’t even like. They’re these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don’t reflect who women are, and there’s something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.” -Carla Gugino

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’m not looking to lose anything. I’m looking to continue making movies.” -Johnny Knoxville

    (click to view listing)

  • “Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.” -James Broughton

    (click to view listing)

  • “I don’t think the competition’s so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.” -Paul Thomas Anderson

    (click to view listing)

  • “My sense is, I think it’s okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.” -Ivan Reitman

    (click to view listing)

  • “There’s more to life than movies.” -Paul Walker

    (click to view listing)

  • “I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I’ve done here in the UK, I’ve done a bunch of films in Canada.” -Joel Silver

    (click to view listing)

  • “No, ‘F/X 2’ was a job. I enjoyed doing it but that was definitely a job. I wrote that, I didn’t direct it but ‘Candyman’ and the earlier horror movies I made, I was completely into horror and suspense and always have been. It’s informed everything I’ve done, even the way scenes are shot in…

    (click to view listing)

  • “If you look at anybody who’s had along career, if you look at the choices they’ve made – even if the movies haven’t worked – they’ve always worked with great filmmakers.” -Bradley Cooper

    (click to view listing)

  • “Movies were a struggle for me – they didn’t come easy.” -Mandy Patinkin

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’ve never written a movie, I’m not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I’m like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.” -Justin Cronin

    (click to view listing)

  • “Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It’s something I really like. I like movies.” -Yann Martel

    (click to view listing)

  • “I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don’t see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.” -Matt LeBlanc

    (click to view listing)

  • “Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.” -Reed Hastings

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it’s not a conversation, it’s a monologue. It’s always from one point of view. ‘If we don’t tell our own stories, no one will tell them’ is my mantra.” -Mira Nair

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies they’re so beautiful to look at. It’s such a shame we don’t make them anymore. Although, I don’t know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.” -Jamie Bell

    (click to view listing)

  • “The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn’t have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.” -Scott Caan

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’ve always been interested in making movies.” -Lance Bass

    (click to view listing)

  • “I turn a lot of stuff down – big, big movies, the kind I wouldn’t want to go to the cinema to see.” -Matthew Fox

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’m carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get ‘Okaaaaaay, honey.’ I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.” -Kristen Bell

    (click to view listing)

  • “The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.” -Lisa Loeb

    (click to view listing)

  • “I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.” -Ken Burns

    (click to view listing)

  • “In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It’s a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.” -Wesley Morris

    (click to view listing)

  • “The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That’s why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.” -David Cronenberg

    (click to view listing)

  • “I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I’m a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.” -Shailene Woodley

    (click to view listing)

  • “It’s time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I’m proud of. It’s time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I’m the king of video and…

    (click to view listing)

  • “If you go to Sundance, the experience that I’ve had there as a viewer is… there’s like a hundred movies there, and you’ve got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don’t know anything about because it just works into your schedule.”…

    (click to view listing)

  • “That’s the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn’t matter if you’re a nice guy or you’re a prick. If your movies do well, there’s a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It’s not any more complicated than that.” -Matt Damon

    (click to view listing)

  • “Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?” -Kate Hudson

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’ve directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.” -Penny Marshall

    (click to view listing)

  • “When I’m shooting a movie, I’m always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.” -Michael Moore

    (click to view listing)

  • “It didn’t matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.” -Jon Landau

    (click to view listing)

  • “When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Dracula’ on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.” -George A. Romero

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn’t like me. I guess I wasn’t a certain type.” -Leelee Sobieski

    (click to view listing)

  • “There’s always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it’s that trickle down effect.” -Michelle Pfeiffer

    (click to view listing)

  • “The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports’ appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they’re no different from movies they’re scripted.” -Michael Mandelbaum

    (click to view listing)

  • “When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.” -Adam Savage

    (click to view listing)

  • “The other two things are… well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.” -Ewan McGregor

    (click to view listing)

  • “I love all the old classic Disney movies. ‘Pinocchio.’ There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I’m an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm’s fairy tales that I kind of…

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’m always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.” -Ian MacKaye

    (click to view listing)

  • “Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.” -Julie Bowen

    (click to view listing)

  • “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…

    (click to view listing)

  • “Movies are about escape.” -George A. Romero

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “I don’t think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the ’90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.” -Janeane Garofalo

    (click to view listing)

  • “Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.” -Tom Clancy

    (click to view listing)

  • “I didn’t know this about myself, but when ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ came out I realised that I didn’t enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn’t react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films…

    (click to view listing)

  • “I manage to hide in my movies.” -Liev Schreiber

    (click to view listing)

  • “Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.” -Suzanne Fields

    (click to view listing)

  • “I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn’t know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.” -Michelle Rodriguez

    (click to view listing)

  • “Man, I love the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies. Some people would say I’m weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.” -Robert Griffin III

    (click to view listing)

  • “I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He’s a very talented director.” -Famke Janssen

    (click to view listing)

  • “I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.” -Rihanna

    (click to view listing)

  • “When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.” -Elizabeth Hurley

    (click to view listing)

  • “When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.” -Barbet Schroeder

    (click to view listing)

  • “And anyway, it’s only movies. to stop me I think they’ll ahve to shoot me in the head.” -Ridley Scott

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’ve been in enough movies to know that when you’re on the set and you start shooting, you’re looking at playback and you get a sense of what it’s going to be like.” -Mark Wahlberg

    (click to view listing)

  • “Maybe when I stop making movies, I’ll understand my work better.” -Dario Argento

    (click to view listing)

  • “The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don’t know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.” -Jodie Foster

    (click to view listing)

  • “If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I’ll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.” -Naomi Watts

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.” -M. Night Shyamalan

    (click to view listing)

  • “I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.” -Chevy Chase

    (click to view listing)

  • “I do other sorts of things. I act in other people’s movies. I direct operas. I write books.” -Werner Herzog

    (click to view listing)

  • “American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.” -Tom Hooper

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.” -Oliver Stone

    (click to view listing)

  • “I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.” -Jet Li

    (click to view listing)

  • “I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.” -Don DeLillo

    (click to view listing)

  • “Luis Bunuel made great movies.” -Giancarlo Esposito

    (click to view listing)

  • “Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that’s what they are – they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.” -Peter Mullan

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’m a big kid, I’m a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’ – not the remake, but the original. It’s still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to…

    (click to view listing)

  • “I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you’re bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.”…

    (click to view listing)

  • “If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.” -Adam Duritz

    (click to view listing)

  • “In theater or movies you see either ‘I’m religious’ or ‘I’m an atheist.’ I’ve never seen too much discussion of ‘I believe there’s a higher power but I’m hesitant to reach out to him because I don’t know if I’m worthy of his attention.’” -Zach Braff

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’ve never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.” -Carrie-Anne Moss

    (click to view listing)

  • “And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.” -Niklas Zennstrom

    (click to view listing)

  • “I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.” -Frank Miller

    (click to view listing)

  • “In some movies you feel like you’re a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it’s a more concentrated and quiet experience.” -Minnie Driver

    (click to view listing)

  • “Violent behavior exists in one’s psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.” -Richard King

    (click to view listing)

  • “It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like ‘Back to the Future’ and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren’t doing. It’s hard to get them on their feet.” -Chris Evans

    (click to view listing)

  • “Movies are movies, television is television.” -Dirk Benedict

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’ve had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I’ve been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don’t get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.” -John Grisham

    (click to view listing)

  • “My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.” -Carol Burnett

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’ll work with a director if I think I’m going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it’s someone I respect and who respects me, even if they’re not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.” -Robert De Niro

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’m always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I’m always working on movies and TV shows.” -Colin Quinn

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “I think there’s an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the ‘Saw’ movies.” -Amber Heard

    (click to view listing)

  • “People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.” -Samuel L. Jackson

    (click to view listing)

  • “I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.” -Bill Nighy

    (click to view listing)

  • “The movies were custard compared to politics.” -Nancy Reagan

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’ve seen little pieces of ‘Interview with a Vampire’ when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don’t watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.” -Stephenie Meyer

    (click to view listing)

  • “For a number of years, I’d been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I’d always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.” -David Fincher

    (click to view listing)

  • “A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.” -Errol Morris

    (click to view listing)

  • “It’s a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.” -Scarlett Johansson

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’d love to act more. I’ve had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it’s encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I’ve been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I’ll have recorded a project of my own. I also…

    (click to view listing)

  • “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

    (click to view listing)

  • “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…

    (click to view listing)

  • “My agent said, ‘You aren’t good enough for movies.’ I said, ‘You’re fired.’” -Sally Field

    (click to view listing)

  • “I don’t make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.” -Jerry Bruckheimer

    (click to view listing)

  • “Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I’ve written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I’ve done it all.” -Melissa Rosenberg

    (click to view listing)

  • “I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.” -Laurell K. Hamilton

    (click to view listing)

  • “You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.” -Mary Schmich

    (click to view listing)

  • “Why should you have to atone for making big movies?” -Emily Blunt

    (click to view listing)

  • “My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called ‘New Faces of 1937.’ My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang…

    (click to view listing)

  • “What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they’re sort of larger than life and I think I’m still suffering from that reaction.” -Guy Ritchie

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’m just happy to be a film where for once I don’t have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it’s true.” -Emily Mortimer

    (click to view listing)

  • “I was always attracted to science fiction movies.” -Tina Turner

    (click to view listing)

  • “Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.” -Maureen O’Hara

    (click to view listing)

  • “In terms of number of movies, I’ve been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I’m onscreen, it’s not so long.” -Wallace Shawn

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’ve found that if you wear a beret, people think you’re either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.” -Ernie Harwell

    (click to view listing)

  • “I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.” -Andy Murray

    (click to view listing)

  • “In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn’t play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.” -John Hench

    (click to view listing)

  • “John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.” -Carter Burwell

    (click to view listing)

  • “Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can’t help but laugh a little, because you’ve already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.” -Sean Penn

    (click to view listing)

  • “I love it, man I’m 23 years old and I’m lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can’t believe it’s happening.” -Jonah Hill

    (click to view listing)

  • “Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you’re a Hall of Famer.” -Denis Leary

    (click to view listing)

  • “For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.” -Lynda Barry

    (click to view listing)

  • “I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it’s efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to…

    (click to view listing)

  • “I don’t always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven’t seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I’m obliged to see them.” -Emmanuelle Beart

    (click to view listing)

  • “People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I’ll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let’s say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?” -Ai Weiwei

    (click to view listing)

  • “In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.” -Daniel H. Wilson

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’ll be honest with you. My kids don’t watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they’ve seen, actually, all the way through.” -Kevin Bacon

    (click to view listing)

  • “If you’re not a real chameleon of an actor and if you’re not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.” -Ethan Hawke

    (click to view listing)

  • “Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.” -Quincy Jones

    (click to view listing)

  • “Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.” -Seth Rogen

    (click to view listing)

  • “I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.” -Robert Rodriguez

    (click to view listing)

  • “I don’t want to imitate life in movies I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it’s to show one emotion.” -Pedro Almodovar

    (click to view listing)

  • “I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.” -Tommy Lee Jones

    (click to view listing)

  • “Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that’s that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.” -Kevin Smith

    (click to view listing)

  • “I want to do movies that I’m proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.” -Kevin James

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’m fighting the label of ‘Black’ actress simply because it’s very limiting in people’s eyes, especially people who are making movies.” -Whoopi Goldberg

    (click to view listing)

  • “I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.” -Lee Child

    (click to view listing)

  • “One of the reasons why people – particularly young people – love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.” -Steven Seagal

    (click to view listing)

  • “People go to the movies to watch a film and all they’re thinking about is the actress’s cellulite they saw in a magazine.” -Robert Carlyle

    (click to view listing)

  • “I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.” -Victoria Justice

    (click to view listing)

  • “Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it’s because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.” -Abbas…

    (click to view listing)

  • “It’s always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I’m taking my clothes off all the time?” -Taylor Lautner

    (click to view listing)

  • “I like high impact movies.” -Kathryn Bigelow

    (click to view listing)

  • “‘Little Miss Sunshine’ snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don’t hold out huge hope for.” -Greg Kinnear

    (click to view listing)

  • “I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.” -Tim Robbins

    (click to view listing)

  • “I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it’s about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.” -Jim Harrison

    (click to view listing)

  • “The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that’s really excellent – not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.” -Idris Elba

    (click to view listing)

  • “I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.” -Joe Rogan

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’m also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I’m doing it.” -Lynn Redgrave

    (click to view listing)

  • “So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn’t have an income.” -Tippi Hedren

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’ve been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven’t been right for me.” -Guy Pearce

    (click to view listing)

  • “I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.” -Fiona Shaw

    (click to view listing)

  • “Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They’re about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren’t necessarily about that.” -Richard Russo

    (click to view listing)

  • “I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.” -Jennifer Hudson

    (click to view listing)

  • “I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.” -Alexander Payne

    (click to view listing)

  • “I didn’t really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.” -Lawrence Kasdan

    (click to view listing)

  • “For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.” -Michelle Williams

    (click to view listing)

  • “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.” -Nathan Fillion

    (click to view listing)

  • “My fans mean everything to me – especially the sisters! When you’re on ‘The View’ or you’re doing movies and stuff, you’re a little bit insulated. It means so much to me when a woman comes up to me and says, ‘Sherri, you said what I feel.’ That just means so much to me to…

    (click to view listing)

  • “I don’t rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.” -Kristen Wiig

    (click to view listing)

  • “I don’t like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.” -Kathy Griffin

    (click to view listing)

  • “I’m into ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ obviously, and I’ve seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on ‘Game of Thrones.’ Weirdly, it wasn’t until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.” -Anna Kendrick

    (click to view listing)

  • “Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did ‘Once Upon A Time’ for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I’ve done some movies because I would regret them if I didn’t, but other projects I’ve done because they’ve scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy…

    (click to view listing)

  • “I don’t even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.” -Portia de Rossi

    (click to view listing)

  • “The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.” -Barbara Ehrenreich

    (click to view listing)

  • “All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.” -Michael Haneke

    (click to view listing)

  • “The movies and the parts I’m being offered are becoming better and better.” -Vanessa Paradis

    (click to view listing)

  • “I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw ‘my people’ portrayed accurately.” -Paul Feig

    (click to view listing)


View More Quotations – By Author.

View More Quotations – By Topic.

Home.