Quotes About Movies

I was passionate about films, but was scared to tell that to my parents. Soon after my engineering, I got a job and was earning well. But I wanted to chase my dreams and get into movies.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.

I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

We all grew up with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.

Now that I am an actor (if you can call me that) I still watch movies with the same childlike enthusiasm.

In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.

My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all these really fantastical films with martial arts in them.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

I like Vidya Balan because she chooses some interesting films.

I became extremely choosy about films.

I've done some movies before when you have months, or three weeks at least, to train and to learn choreography.

When I came into the movies, I was 27 years. I had the choice of playing the mother or sister. I chose mother.

I don't know anything about life, but everything about cinema.

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.

I don't go to the cinema much.

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.

When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make my plays the opposite of that - something a bit more cinematic. I'm a film kid, so I'll never have the same love of theatre as I do of movies. It's just the way I was brought up.

I think the cinematography in 'Mr. Robot' is some of the best I've ever seen, honestly. Not even as being part of the show but as somebody who enjoys cinema and movies in film and TV.

I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.