Quotes About Movies

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.

I appreciate artistically made movies, but as an audience member, I want to be entertained, too.

I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.

To me, as an audience member, movies always come to a screeching halt when they get to their action scenes. They always feel like they drag on to me.

Being a part of memorable movies has always been the goal.

I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.

I've been lucky to be a part of many blockbuster movies... in which it's hard to get to that level of being memorable, but I still have fond memories of 'Independence Day,' to be sure. There are also many small ones I've had that give me many fond memories.

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.

Even before we had a band, the merging of music and movies just seemed so perfect.

People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.

I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.

I'm interested in Jeff Bridges. I love that guy. And I did like Carey Mulligan in 'An Education.' And I love Meryl Streep, but if they could ban 'Julie & Julia,' I'd be in favor of that.

I have not seen 'It' because I don't like horror movies. I don't mess with clowns or demons.

I think the best bad movies are not really genre movies like, let's say, 'Troll 2,' because those are easy to mess up.

We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it.

When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.

My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.

Looking back at how I have been selecting my characters, I tried to choose movies with social messages or ones with a unique genre.