Quotes About Movies

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

I don't direct movies for a living.

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it!

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

Hollywood loves aliens.

Now imagine if I were to ask a room full of executives which they enjoy more: meetings or movies? They would probably think I was joking. And yet, meetings should be more interesting than movies because they have more inherent potential for passion and engagement than movies do.

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. But I have will to defend people - it can be all sorts of people.

Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.