Quotes About Movies

People see images now more than they see movies.

You do remember things that people say in movies. You remember particular lines and things that are funny. But, you also remember really strong images. Images have a way of bypassing your brain and hitting you emotionally.

When I was 13 years old, I was obsessed with horror films. I even had, like, a binder that I filled with badly copied images from the Internet of, like, 'Pinhead and Basket Case.'

I never imagined myself making these big movies and being married and having kids.

It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.

I read certain articles about how all of the new filmmakers are immediately being given massive tentpoles, and there's a lot of original movies that we have now lost as a result of this. I don't want to call it a fad because I think it's a good thing. I think the movies are better as a result.

Movies play a very important part in my life and I think the most number of films are made in India.

I have been very fortunate since 'Ice Age' to make movies that somehow charm audiences. I think that the key to it for me has been coming up with the right ideas but, more importantly, choosing the right collaborators and artists to execute those ideas.

Even the pre-schoolers are like, 'I watch you on The Jonas Brothers.' And my own kids. I have been in the greatest movies, even some for kids, and they were never impressed until I did 'Jonas L.A.'

My dad is so impressed. He loves the movies and would take us two, three times a week, so this fantasy of mine of becoming an actor? I can blame my father for that. He's so amazed. And so happy.

Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all.

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?

Hal Holbrook was in one of my first television movies when I was about 18 or 19. He'd made such a strong impression on me and a lasting one in terms of what being an actor was.

The Fred Astaire movies made a huge impression on me.

I'm a huge, huge fan of Blu-ray. I think the picture and the sound quality is just such a massive improvement, and I think for movies like 'Event Horizon,' where the image is a key part of that film, and also the sound, as well, in any scary movie is an important element.

Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

I feel I am incapable of making Hindi movies. But I don't mind acting in them just to earn my bread and butter.

When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.

I didn't grow up watching films, as I was more academically inclined.

I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to 'Conan.'

It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.

I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.