Quotes About Movies

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

There are some movies that you feel like doing because of the script. Some because it sounds like fun, some because that's the director you want to work with, some because it's a project that you want to be involved with, and some because you will be paid lots of money. But the bottom line is I must feel like doing it.

There are films which are good, but sometimes it doesn't work at the box office.

I think that every male actor fantasizes with a boxing film.

I love watching movies and spending as much time with my boyfriend.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

As for 'Garam Masala,' everybody knows what kind of film it is. It's the type where you keep your brains at home.

I love Brian De Palma.

Most movies are too brightly lit. I think that may come from a lot of directors having watched too much TV.

Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

Stephen Frears is brilliant and has made movies that inspired me for my whole life.

Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.

You can't actually be just a movie actor in Britain, because we don't make that many movies.

I've been blessed to have acting opportunities in movies, television, as well as Broadway, and definitely want to continue to do so.

I'm a big Broadway fan and a big MGM fan.

I am happy that most of my films did good business and either set or broke records at the box office.

She's Jenny from the block! I love her music and her movies. And she goes back to where she grew up in the Bronx and gives back to the community.

I saw 'Brooklyn' so many times.

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.

With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.

Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren't necessarily big budget movies or anything.