Quotes About Movies

I've always loved movies and loved the idea of playing make-believe. That was my favorite game, growing up as a child, was make-believe, and to be able to do it as an adult is awesome.

You know, I started in movies a long time ago, and once in awhile I'm taken aback. Sometimes one of my things will come on - they use my things as background music all the time, in somebody else's arrangements and It catches my ear.

Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

To us, being the bad guys is cool, because we always root for the bad guys in the movies.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

In Hollywood, they create banks of scripts, whether they are used or not.

I did not leave television to go to the movies. In television, they banned me.

People like movies made by the Ramu Enterprises banner because they get to see a film with rich production values.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

When people asked me back then what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said a basketball player, and I meant it. But I loved going to the movies.

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

I've probably spent a good year and half of my life watching movies. I love it. It was something I knew I'd be happy doing.

It would be nice if all people who saw movies had some sort of basic understanding of what they're looking at, but I don't think you can assume that.

There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.

In Chennai, we have the beach for entertainment, but in places like Trichy, Salem, and Coimbatore, movies are the only entertainment.

I'm always home, doing nothing, making beats, and watching movies.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

For the benefit of this naïf, the movie experts ran through an inventory of all the lost movies they could think of: the eight-hour version of Greed, Jerry Lewis's The Day the Clown Cried, about a clown who works in the Nazi concentration camps, the missing reels of The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles's legendary The Other Side of the Wind, The Blockhouse – a Second World War drama starring Peter Sellers

Now that we moderns have stripped the earth of its mystery—have made, in Saul Bellow's description, "a housecleaning of belief"—how are our imaginations to be nourished? By Hollywood and made-for-TV movies?

So much of the Western tradition deals with the most despairing and angst-ridden emotions, but they're movies made for kids. It's as if America was trying to pass on an unpleasant but necessary lesson of life: that you were alone, and you needed to toughen up and shut up.