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Quotes About Movies

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.
~ Rouben Mamoulian
I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'
~ Courtney B. Vance
I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
~ Maggie Gyllenhaal
Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
~ Mandy Patinkin
Akki ki is bimaari ki nautanki ke baad to bahut sari filmein aur bada ratna award milna naaki
~ Unknown
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
~ Manuel Puig
I wanted to watch a movie or listen to some music, so I did both. I put on a DVD of The Wizard of Oz and a CD of Metallica's Ride the Lightning. IT TURNS OUT THAT WHEN YOU PLAY THEM BOTH TOGETHER, YOU GET ALL THE ANSWERS.
~ John Moe
And of course, just like in the movies, as soon as you mention that life is good, that means something needs to come by and sqaut one out on your life.
~ John Scalzi
next thing is opinions. You and me is always busting out with opinions. Hell Susy, we ain't got no opinions. We just say stuff we heard or seen in the movies. We're scared we'll miss something, like running for the bus. That's the second rule: lay off opinions because you really ain't got any.
~ John Steinbeck
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
~ Edward Albee
What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.
~ James Gandolfini
I watched a bunch of kids movies on Christmas. I was kind of joking with our family by asking, "Is anyone allowed to die in a kid's movie anymore?"
~ George Saunders
Let's be honest, there are a lot of family movies; I like some of them, I don't like other ones.
~ John Krasinski
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
~ John Lasseter
I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.
~ Julian Fellowes
They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie?
~ Bob Thomas
Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
~ Gary Ross
I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.
~ Joseph Abboud
Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)
~ Martha Rosler
It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.
~ Terence Stamp
I really like Blade. I wish people would make hard R-rated fantasy movies again. It's completely irrelevant, but people should do that more. I haven't seen that many vampire things.
~ Robert Pattinson
I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
~ Robert Rodriguez
We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
After watching too many scary movies it was hard not to have an overactive imagination, along with an inherent distrust of seemingly benevolent (and sometimes inanimate) things, like lawn gnomes.
~ Unknown