Quotes About Movies

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

I think the only thing filmmakers can do is try to make good movies and make them as long as they allow us to keep making them. But at the end of the day, it is a business, and if audiences don't care, there's nothing we can do. It'll just go away, I guess.

Movies always had a captive audience, so they were able to do deeper, more complex things. Television was always about, 'Look at me now! Look at me now! Now go away!' That's starting to change.

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.

I love 'The Godfather' and 'Casablanca' - great stories, acted well, made well.

I like 'Citizen Kane,' I like 'The Godfather,' all the ones that everyone should see, whether you're an actor or not.

Friends would ask, 'Have you seen 'The Godfather?' and I'd be like, 'No.'

Let me put it this way: if 'The Godfather' hadn't been made, 'Sarkaar' wouldn't have been made. That is the truth.

Films like 'Scarface', 'The Godfather', 'Goodfellas' and 'Casino' are something I can watch again and again and from anywhere. I love them so I have to make one.

I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.

Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

I don't know how you can tell a good actor in the movies. I really don't. I think you simply just do the part and hope to God that the director has a good cutter and a good editor, and it'll all get cut and put together so that you look good in it.

As long as there's really good actors that use their clout to support fringe films, whatever genre it is, they'll still get made.

I just think good actors are the main reason to make movies.

I did a lot of hokey movies when I was starting out at MGM. Good and bad, mostly bad.

I started out as an assistant to a director on two movies, Miguel Arteta. The movies I worked on were 'Chuck and Buck' and 'The Good Girl.' I didn't even know I wanted to be a director until I started working with Miguel.

When I was a kid, 'Robocop' to me was just good guys and bad guys.

My mom always wanted me to do movies where I played, whether I had flaws or not, guys that had a good heart.

I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

I've never gone around looking for roles. It has been my good luck that all the films that I have done, the filmmakers have approached me.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

You can do bad parts in good pictures or good parts in bad pictures and maybe get a little personal satisfaction. But the key to it all is good parts in good pictures.

I'm trying to keep a good record and do interesting movies with interesting filmmakers.

I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.