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).
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“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
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“I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.” -Alex Winter
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“I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.” -Kat Dennings
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.” -Joe Morton
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“What I don’t like are pompous, pretentious movies.” -Peter Jackson
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“Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.” -Laura Dern
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“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
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“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
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“I’m not looking to lose anything. I’m looking to continue making movies.” -Johnny Knoxville
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“Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.” -James Broughton
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“I don’t think the competition’s so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.” -Paul Thomas Anderson
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“My sense is, I think it’s okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.” -Ivan Reitman
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“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
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“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…
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“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
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“Movies were a struggle for me – they didn’t come easy.” -Mandy Patinkin
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“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
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“Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It’s something I really like. I like movies.” -Yann Martel
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“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
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“Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.” -Reed Hastings
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“I’ve always been interested in making movies.” -Lance Bass
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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…
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“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.”…
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“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
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“Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?” -Kate Hudson
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“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
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“I’ve directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.” -Penny Marshall
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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…
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“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
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“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
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“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…
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.” -Tom Clancy
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“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…
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.” -Rihanna
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“When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.” -Elizabeth Hurley
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“And anyway, it’s only movies. to stop me I think they’ll ahve to shoot me in the head.” -Ridley Scott
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“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
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“Maybe when I stop making movies, I’ll understand my work better.” -Dario Argento
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.” -Chevy Chase
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“I do other sorts of things. I act in other people’s movies. I direct operas. I write books.” -Werner Herzog
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“American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.” -Tom Hooper
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“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
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“One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.” -Oliver Stone
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“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
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“I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.” -Don DeLillo
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“Luis Bunuel made great movies.” -Giancarlo Esposito
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“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
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“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…
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“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.”…
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“If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.” -Adam Duritz
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“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
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“I’ve never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.” -Carrie-Anne Moss
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“And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.” -Niklas Zennstrom
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“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
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“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
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“Violent behavior exists in one’s psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.” -Richard King
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“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
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“Movies are movies, television is television.” -Dirk Benedict
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“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
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“My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.” -Carol Burnett
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“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
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“I’m always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I’m always working on movies and TV shows.” -Colin Quinn
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“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
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“I think there’s an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the ‘Saw’ movies.” -Amber Heard
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“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
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“I like being in kids’ movies, and I like being in family movies.” -Bill Nighy
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“The movies were custard compared to politics.” -Nancy Reagan
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“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
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“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
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“A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.” -Errol Morris
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“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
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“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…
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“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…
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“My agent said, ‘You aren’t good enough for movies.’ I said, ‘You’re fired.’” -Sally Field
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“I don’t make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.” -Jerry Bruckheimer
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“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
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“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
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“You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.” -Mary Schmich
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“Why should you have to atone for making big movies?” -Emily Blunt
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“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…
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“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
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“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
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“I was always attracted to science fiction movies.” -Tina Turner
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“Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.” -Maureen O’Hara
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“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
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“I’ve found that if you wear a beret, people think you’re either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.” -Ernie Harwell
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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…
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.” -Quincy Jones
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“Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.” -Seth Rogen
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“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
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“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
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“I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.” -Tommy Lee Jones
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.” -Lee Child
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“One of the reasons why people – particularly young people – love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.” -Steven Seagal
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“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
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“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
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“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…
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“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
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“‘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
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“I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.” -Tim Robbins
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“I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it’s about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.” -Jim Harrison
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“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
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“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
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“I’m also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I’m doing it.” -Lynn Redgrave
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“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
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“I’ve been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven’t been right for me.” -Guy Pearce
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“I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.” -Fiona Shaw
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“Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They’re about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren’t necessarily about that.” -Richard Russo
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“I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.” -Jennifer Hudson
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“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
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“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
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“For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.” -Michelle Williams
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“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
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“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…
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“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
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“I don’t like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.” -Kathy Griffin
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“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
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“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…
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“I don’t even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.” -Portia de Rossi
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“All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.” -Michael Haneke
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“The movies and the parts I’m being offered are becoming better and better.” -Vanessa Paradis
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“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
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