Quotes About Movies

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.

Chris Guest movies are funny.

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.

I was really into 'Cocktail' when I was younger - probably the most - followed by 'Top Gun.'

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

I didn't want the children to grow up and, when asked what their mother did, say, 'Oh, Mom's a gun moll in the movies.'

When I have some time, I enjoy watching movies, also trying to cultivate habit of reading.

Some of the Christopher Guest movies, when I'm not really like myself, when I have my hair dyed blonde or had a faux-hawk haircut. Those I like to watch because it takes you away from your real self.

'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.

I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.

I've seen 'The Godfather Part II,' 'Broadcast News,' and 'Annie Hall' more than 20 times each.

'Hester Street' was my most complete character study, but 'Annie Hall' and 'The Last Detail' were also great.

I love 'Halloween,' and I love 'The Thing.'

I made that decision around the time of 'Halloween,' whether I wanted to continue trying to be a singer and rock and roll player or get into movies.

If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.

When the sun finally went down, the cameras started rolling, and I started running around the edge of the Lincoln Center fountain, shouting for all I was worth, "I want everything I've ever seen in the movies!" And the fountain was turned on, in the film and in my life.

One of the most interesting things, at least for me, are the soundtracks for 'The Social Network' and 'Drive.' Basically, it's what I did in 'American Gigolo.' I could have done the music for those movies blindfolded. And one of them won an Oscar, and the other is this massive soundtrack.

I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.