Quotes About Movies

Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect.

I love putting things together. I love putting together a team and making stuff with people. It's great, that's what's cool about movies it's such a collaborative effort.

I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

'Star Wars' was, I mean, it was the first time I remember seeing three movies that all kind of went together. It was just an amazing final understanding of what a trilogy was.

I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.

I am constantly drawing inspiration from everything I see-the places I travel, the people I know and the movies I see.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

You do form a cadre of people that you trust and who are good at their jobs and who know you and what your quirks and foibles are. It makes making movies very collegial and a lot more fun.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

Strange, how such a small realization can affect everyone's life forever. In movies there is always a carefully staged moment - a big crescendo of music, close- ups of the actors' faces, the camera slowly pulling away to let all this sink in for the viewer...but, in real life, most all of the extraordinary things happen with no more loudness than a whisper.

This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility.

I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

I love movies like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Juno.' Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing.

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.