Quotes About Movies

I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.

I love filming in New York. I love New York movies, too. I just like it when people can take New York and make it their own, because there are so many different New Yorks.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.

It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies.

I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.

I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it's just as hard to make a great scary movie as it is to make a great comedy or drama or anything else.

I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

I was brought up on American films.

I did important films when I was very young.

My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!

Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.

We don't feel duty-bound to get all the way through a TV program. If we're not enjoying it, we turn over. Movies, we tend to give more of the benefit of the doubt because they're only 90 minutes or two hours. But books, there is this thing of, 'It's a book. I've got to finish it.'

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

I like making movies and would like to make it my career when I'm finished playing football.

I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made.

I just go from one movie to the next and try not to get fired.

I am a fairytale person and firmly believe that movies are made to entertain.

'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.