Quotes About Movies

Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.

My dad has always been such a great dad, and he's brought so much culture to my life. He dragged me to see every single movie at the cinématheque as a kid. I saw everything from Star Wars to Bergman.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

I can't really remember my life without movies.

I've already made several friends-for-life from the latest movies I've worked on, and I know I'll make several more in the years to come.

All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.

I do feel good doing them [family-friendly movies], but it's not going to be my way of life. I'm a comedian.

I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

I don't care about anybody's opinion - I care that my movies move you in a way to think about things and consider your own life.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!

You know what's funny about movies? You can watch one, and then you watch it again at a different stage in your life, and you understand different messages from the same film.

I don't think I've ever seen a zombie movie in my life.

Movies have takes. But plays are like life - you don't really get takes.

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).

The gentleman who plays it in the new Star Trek movies is great, but he's acting. Leonard was Spock. He was always the character.

There was one thing the Star Trek movies did well, and that's the action sequences always had something going on and were character motivated.

One of the factors that drew Himes to Rico was their mutual need for fantasy. Movies especially entranced them. They lost themselves in Hollywood gossip, immersed themselves in movie magazine lore, and pretended to identify with the stars. But it was the films themselves-frequently shown in the prison-that most affected them, evoking images of life outside the walls and at the same time reminding them of where they were.