Quotes About Movies

Dylan wrapped his arms around my middle and pulled me closer to him. Perhaps the true reason Hollywood made scary movies. So guys could have an excuse for holding a girl close.

When making his music, he [Elvis Presley] had been the essence of cool, but in his movies he was often a self-parody embarrassing to watch. Colonel Parker, his manager, who had picked movie scrips for him, had served Elvis less well than the monk Rasputin had served Czar Nicholas and Alexandra.

When she returned, she smiled and said, We were at the movies once, and this dork took two phone calls during the film. Later we followed him, and Andre broke both his legs with a baseball bat. This proved that even the most evil people could occasionally have a socially responsible impulse.

I go to the movies as I'd go to the dawn, / and the triumphs there, the things that are brought to light, / the large, sad lives of people not so different from me, their stories heard / through a tumbler held to the ear / and seen through a gauze of falling sand— / these are my triumphs; I am brought to light. — Denis Johnson, from "Movie Within a Movie," The Veil: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1987)

He'd known of her, of course; everyone in the neighborhood knew of Katie. She was that beautiful. But few people really knew her. Beauty could do that; it scared you off, made you keep your distance. It wasn't like in the movies where the camera made beauty seem like something that invited you in. In the real world, beauty was like a fence to keep you out, back you off.

Good movies, man, they give you another life. A whole other future for a while.

The Asian culture has to be a part of what we see on TV and in movies.

I have grown up watching Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar movies. Naturally, I aspire to be a part of their kind of cinema.

It was cool when the Duffers assigned a list of movies to watch.

Although I grew up around movies, I don't know that I assumed I was going to be an actor.

I just make films that attract me.

I have never been attracted to television work. Even to appear in series and soapies. I have always appeared in theatre and major movies, writing plays and other things.

I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Christian audiences, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them.

My audiences love watching my films.

I usually don't get the movies I audition for.

When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.

I don't tend to be a nitpicker when I'm watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that's very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn't have done themselves.

Do you know Don Coscarelli? 'Bubba Ho-Tep?' That's one of my favorite movies in the world. And I love the 'Phantasm' movies.

I like to watch movies - I just saw the documentary about Amy Winehouse, which was very good and emotional.

I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.

There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.

And I love having the job to go to every week. With movies, there's a lot of downtime. I like working, and television really does that.