Quotes About Movies

I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.

As a young actress, I started out acting in beautiful independent movies in Mexico.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

I love Michael Bay movies. I don't think I'd be selling out if I did one. I happen to like his movies. I think selling out is doing something you don't believe in, and you're doing it for a selfish purpose.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

I came from a very middle class Maharashtrian family. It was a big step to get into movies. My family was shocked.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

Coming from where I came from, the Midwest, in the era I was born, the '30s, movies were glorious fun - Bette Davis dying or whatever. But whatever they were, they were not serious.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

I enjoyed doing 'Space Jam' and maybe I'll do a milk commercial some day, but I'm not into that stuff.

It's not appropriate to a love story, or - there are a million stories you could think of that don't need 3D. A lot of movies don't even need color!

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

Never made a million dollars from any of my 78 movies. People thought I had this fortune, which I never had.

I always wanted to be in movies, but I never thought that in a million years there would be a documentary about my life.

Mindless films are usually far more entertaining because the audience just comes for a laugh.

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'

I love the Marvel movies, but I always feel like we should be a step ahead of the movies. One of the reasons those movies have been so good and so successful is that they've been very good at mining the comics.

I've known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was 'Along Came Polly.'

Neither of my parents suffered from the little spooky prejudices that devour the people who know nothing but automobiles and movies and what's in the ice-box and what's in the papers and which neighbors are getting a divorce.

You came to talk about the play, he said. Let me discourage you. It was written to entertain people. Like horror movies. It isn't literature, it doesn't mean anything. Wharfinger was no Shakespeare. Who was he? she said. Who was Shakespeare? It was a long time ago.

I like high impact movies.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.