Quotes About Movies

You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people.

I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.

I love making movies that I want to see made and I want to see on the screen, but I also want to make movies that people enjoy and want to watch.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

If you are going to be dogged with doubts you shouldn't be making movies.

Live life before making movies, because you cannot make films about life, without having lived one.

I was just making movies to make movies. I was so full of anxiety about becoming a filmmaker that I kind of lost the idea of why I was doing it.

'Junebug' is my favorite Amy Adams movie. I remember watching 'Mama' a lot.

When you keep things responsible and manageable, you can make some interesting movies that you maybe couldn't make otherwise.

With your first film, you can make mistakes, but your second and third movies map out your career.

I have acted on some movies that have martial arts elements, but I'm not a professional.

Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies?

I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.

When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

I really like children to watch my movies.

I've choreographed all of my movies.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Most movies are like predigested food because they are mere reenactments of something that happened (if ever) back in the scripting stage.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

Vanessa's mother worked as a costume designer for the movies. She wore clothes before anyone even knew they were in style. That was her job. She had to be a year or two ahead of everyone else. Sometimes it embarrassed Vanessa to have a mother so overly trendy. But Catty loved to go over to their house and try on her mother's designs.