Quotes About Movies

I happily watch movies made on the life and achievement of others.

People liked my performances in 'Kill Dill' and 'Happy Ending,' but I was hardly there in them.

Suddenly, stories of abuse and harassment are being believed; abusers and harassers are being toppled. Yet, at the same time, one of the top movies in the country right now is 'Daddy's Home 2,' which has a biggish, comedic part for Mel Gibson. He's the man whose anti-Semitism and racist rants became part of the cultural lore.

Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.

I am in movies basically for the money, and frankly, I have a hard time believing those who say they act for the love of acting!

I do like a lot of the '70s movies. I love Charles Bronson in 'Hard Times.' All my favorite movies where ones from yesteryear. The '70s was a good era. I love all those.

I can't watch my movies at their premieres - I learned that lesson the hard way.

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

Being a hardcore old-school comic book lover, it took me a while to accept the need for comic book movies.

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.

Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.

In film school, you get skills, but then you get lackey jobs, working on projects that you probably don't care about. And there's something in me where I just couldn't bring myself to edit some misogynistic rom-com or movies that I would have hated to be a part of. So I knew I just wouldn't get any work because of that.

My wife always hates when I go, 'I just don't love female action movies.' I don't know why. I'll watch them, but I don't run to go and see them.

I think the really great movies and plays are ones that haunt you or disturb you.

I'm just a normal 22-year-old girl who likes to go out, go to movies, have fun, hang out with my friends, get manicures.

With action movies, that's just fun stuff for me. That's me being a kid again. Same with 'The Best of Me' and these romantic dramas. It's such a freedom from reality and social constructions. You get to just have fun and play and be in a movie.

I enjoy certain things, but I don't go out; I don't party. I just like watching movies, making fun music, and having a good time hanging out with the people who helped me get here - I'm a really simple guy.

Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

You can almost hear people saying, 'We're going to make a movie about an election' and 'We're going to make a movie about a lobbyist.' You can hear the yawning start across the nation.

I grew up in England, and at the time, cinema was very heavy arthouse cinema, and there was no one making movies that were designed to be in multiplexes.