Quotes About Movies

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Call Me On The Ouija Board' is homage not just to horror movies involving children, but my favorites as a child.

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

I've got a huge family back in Ireland, and I've made loads of movies in Ireland.

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

I'm a really big Marvel person. I like Marvel. I am a big fan of the Avengers and Iron Man.

I never thought we'd live in an age where we'd get to 2008's 'Iron Man,' which I think is a perfect movie.

We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

I love to be a part of movies, irrespective of the cultural and language barriers.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

For so much of my young life, I'd felt lonely, isolated, cut off from like-minded people. I yearned for human connections and relationships with the sort of people I knew only from books and movies, a lifeline into some other, richer world.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.

I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.

'Harry Brown' is good - and I love 'The Italian Job.'

Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

I'd like to do movies. The kind of comedies Jack Lemmon does.

Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

The most comical thing for me, even when I watch movies, is the guy who's so crazy confident about himself, with the mink jacket - to me, that is so funny. I wish I could be like that. As a fighter, I wish I could do that, so I could make people laugh. But I can't; it's not my style.

Before I did 'Rush Hour,' I was a big fan of Jackie Chan movies and I had seen all of them.

I love the 'Percy Jackson' movies. That was my big break. I love the people I worked with. It was a really magical experience for me.

Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen.

It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies.