Quotes About Movies

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

You think all teenagers care about are musicians and movie stars? Spend some time in Wisconsin. We'll blow your socks off.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.

Cowboys are always leaping from their horses in the movies, and they never get hurt." "You forgot to roll." "Oh. I knew I did something wrong.

I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

Sometimes I look at my own movies

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

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.

I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.

After the success of 'Smokey,' my profit participation only went up on future movies I directed.

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

Multiplex cinema culture has created a level-playing field for directors where small budget movies are able to break even, even make profit.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.