Quotes About Movies

Yet here the pilots were in England, fêted and pampered by the upper echelons of society, glamorized in movies and the press, enjoying themselves in spite of any guilt they may have felt. And here were their hosts and hostesses, with their very British insouciance, acting as if there would always be an England. In one context, this attitude was infuriating; in another, it was one of Britain's greatest strengths.

As the country's most powerful creator of mass culture, Hollywood was considered an especially potent threat by Wheeler and other isolationist leaders. There was little doubt about the influence of movies: more than half of the American people saw at least one movie a week in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

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

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

Now western movies, western novels, and western music were all forbidden again. Russian nationalism was on the rise. French bread was renamed "city bread.

Have we as a society become radically desensitized to the violence and depravity that is flooding from movie and television studios? It is not that we have become more broad-minded and intellectual; it is that we have adapted to the demonic and have become comfortable in the presence of evil.

At some point I asked her if she was at peace with the idea of dying. She looked at me like I was stupid and insane. "No," she said. "I want to live." You idiot! would have finished the sentence nicely. It was one of the only times she seemed really disappointed in me. I realized I had learned everything I know about death from movies. There is no peace in dying.

Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be involved in the thrilling real-life sleaziness that we suspected Hester was in the thick-of. We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

When you write screenplays that don't get made, you lose your sense of humor about the bad movies that do get made

We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production.

You want to do movies that your children can watch, and that your children can have fun at and enjoy the experience of shooting.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

Sociologists say that going to the movies is a bonding experience. It probably has to do with the way you feet stick to the floor.

There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience.

These so called Popcorn movies, or family movies, actually provide something quite beautiful and something quite necessary, which is a family bonding experience.

People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.