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Quotes About Movies

Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.
~ Eleanor Coppola
When we do get a little time off, I tend to watch movies, go to dinners, and keep it low-key.
~ Nina Dobrev
Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.
~ Jemaine Clement
I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.
~ Jennifer Lopez
I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.
~ Bobcat Goldthwait
Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
~ Anne Tyler
Happy endings are popular. Do you not watch movies? Yeah, but that's movies, Darcy groaned. Books are above all that!
~ Scott Westerfeld
People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.
~ Sean Platt & David Wright
Life is actually far better than it is in the movies. And it takes longer.
~ Seth Godin
Want to watch a movie? Netflix is a better librarian, with a better library, than any library in the country. The Netflix librarian knows about every movie, knows what you've seen and what you're likely to want to see. If the goal is to connect viewers with movies, Netflix wins.
~ Seth Godin
He started to look back, but he knew better. That fool always got eaten in the movies. And Nick didn't want to be on anyone's menu.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.
~ David Fincher
Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.
~ David Morse
Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.
~ E. Lockhart
One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.
~ Eli Roth
You have to have a balance between your normal life and movies.
~ Elle Fanning
The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.
~ Milos Forman
People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
~ Peter Morgan
I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.
~ Reese Witherspoon
I'll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies.
~ Ryan Sheckler
I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.
~ Salman Rushdie
To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.
~ Scoot McNairy
I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.
~ Seth Rogen
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.
~ Steve Martin