Quotes About Movies

It's too bad that there aren't as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures like 'The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.' The boys are just not writing them. Many writers are more serious now than they used to be, and that's showing up in all phases of entertainment.

It's like my career is divided in phases. There comes a phase when I only do Tollywood movies, back to back, and then there is a phase when I do only Hindi films.

Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

I think what The Rock has been able to accomplish has been amazing. He has just done a phenomenal job in all of the movies he has been in.

Edinburgh is a phenomenal location for movies and should be used more.

People forget that I am the granddaughter of a person named Nanabhai Bhatt, who had made more than 150 odd films. He was the person to introduce the double role phenomenon in Indian movies.

I've done a couple of films in Philadelphia, and it's a great, great town.

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.

I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if they don't work, the people who worked on them make a little bit of money, and the people who finance them, they lose, but they don't lose too much. I believe that that creates better work.

It doesn't take a cell phone to make a person rude. There are rude people all over the place. But people are learning. I have never heard a cell phone ring in the movies. We are going to learn how to live with the advantages of new technology.

My grandmother, when she looked at American movies, she said, 'They're all the same. In the first scene somebody shoots somebody and then everybody makes phone calls.'

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

There are two things that I really like to do. One is I like to watch horror films a lot. The other hobby is photography.

I went to art school, wanting to be a painter and then I got into photography. Then it was movies, and I liked the images. One of the things that interested me in film was that I was communicating in images. That was something I did intuitively and could not even talk about until I started having to do interviews.

We've had so many faith-based movies that I think are sub-par; I almost want a new phrase for them.

I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.

I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.

Malaysian Tamil movies are amateurish, with songs picked up from our old Tamil movies and inserted in between.

I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me.

The Shining is my fourth picture with Jack Nicholson, or as he says, our fourth 'classic.'

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.