Quotes About Movies

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Making movies is about control. You need to control your narcissism in the first place, and you need to be disciplined enough to understand the reason for the film. You need to follow the agenda of the film, not a personal agenda or that of the studio. Or, worst of all, of the actors.

Archaeologist, adventurer — I saw the Indiana Jones movies. They are the same.

Slowly and gently, Augustus Brine explained to the king of the Djinn about the illusion created by motion pictures. When he finished, he felt like he had just raped the tooth fairy in front of a class of kindergartners.

The gourney, the big file drawers of the dead, the instruments of dissection - this sure looked like the morgues in the movies. Something had gone seriously wrong while she slept.

I took a bunch of pictures. You can see 'em on my MySpace page, along with my favorite songs and movies and things that other people have created but that I use to express my individualism.

Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

In answer to the dominatrix at the Torture Garden, I would say that anyone who wears clothes, listens to music, goes to the movies, or is on the Internet might want to know more about fetishism. Certainly, anyone who is "into" fashion has to address the issue.

I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it.

You know all those romance novels and movies where the couple falls in love, and their happily ever after begins immediately? Well, that's a load of crap! Starting a new life with someone is harder than you think. Especially when you're living with a total alpha male who has lived on his own for the past 10 years. I think I may kill him in his sleep!

And this totally normal conversation unspools from there, covering the basics: family, siblings, school, favorite composers, favorite movies, favorite wood (for carving puppets), the prehistory of the sandwich, and whether the ancient Romans got their togas caught in the spokes of their unicycles

Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums -- movies, television series and books -- for sources of inspiration.

The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script -- different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

I've always been interested in making movies.

Kit: Elemantary? Ty: You know, Holmes never says, "Elementary, my dear Watson", i nthe books. Kit: I swear I've seen it in the movies or maybe on TV. Ty: Who would ever want movies or TV when there are books?

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants.

But I picked it out. I didn't want you to think I had terrible taste in movies." "But you hadn't seen it. If you'd seen it nine times and really wanted me to see it the tenth time with you, and I hated it, I might think you had bad taste in movies. Which isn't the most terrible thing in the world, by the way. But you were just guessing. Anybody can guess wrong.

We've made too many movies, you and I. Or too few. Always too few. Too many to have any meaning, too few to say what we meant.

Hollywood, an industry that shapes not only our national but global memories, has been the most reactionary cultural perpetrator of white nostalgia, stuck in a time loop and refusing to acknowledge that America's racial demographic has radically changed since 1965. Movies are cast as if the country were still "protected" by a white supremacist law that guarantees that the only Americans seen are carefully curated European descendants.

Luis Bunuel made great movies.

Opportunity to suspend disbelief is often why we watch movies. The stories and images touch us and shift perspectives in ways we may not allow in our daily lives. As readily as you check your "this isn't real" attitude at the ticket counter – when transformers are defending earth against aliens and 21st century vampires frolic by daylight – on the big screen of your heart and mind train for, run and celebrate finishing your first marathon.