Quotes About Movies

'Noah' is an insult to Bible-believing Christians, an insult to the character of Noah and, most of all, an insult to the God of the Bible. As a result, I believe Hollywood will have a much harder time in marketing future biblically-themed movies to Christians.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

I was influenced by American movies of the '60s and '70s, especially Don Siegel's 'Dirty Harry' and the films of Sam Peckinpah. And, of course, a lot of the film noir movies of the '40s.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

You've got Marvel films, sequels, franchise movies, so much noise out there. You're trying to brand your entertainment. The musical is its own brand.

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac.

I come from a middle-class background and there was none to lead me through to movies.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

I grew up above a video store. My dad had an account with them and... he was very busy and had his own life. So I just would watch movies nonstop.

The movie I've seen the most is 'Ghostbusters' or 'Ghostbusters II.' I used to watch those movies nonstop.

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.

I am a very normal person who likes to meet people, read, watch movies, and listen to music.

I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person.

Normally movies have the same people they use over and over for everything. It's called typecasting. They don't like to take chances. They'll go with the guy they had before.

Normally I avoid movies where the aliens look like humans. It's cheesy.

I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

My children aren't normally allowed to watch a lot of things that I'm in.

Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.

When I started watching movies, I saw a lot of Hitchcock films. When I was 10, I saw 'North by Northwest' and movies like that.