Quotes About Movies

I am in competition only with my father and my uncle (Mukesh Bhatt) because they taught me what I know today. I only believe in making movies with integrity.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

Working with Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give") and ... Charles Shyer ("Father of the Bride"), and I'm proud of "Reds," and I'm proud of my movies with Woody (Allen).

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

I do not fear anybody on the field or in society, but I fear at night when I am away from my parents. I am scared of the unknown described in horror movies.

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.

I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

I think part of making movies is dealing with restrictions of freedom and budget. I'd rather deal with restrictions of budget. It's better to feel free within any budget.

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Any darkness that comes out in my life is the fruit of my own appetites, and it's my choice either to feed or starve those appetites. I was purposely feeding on music and movies with dark, violent themes and plenty of sexual content. All of that takes root in our thought lives and affects everything we do. It clouds our communication with God and can limit how he uses us. If someone is in a dark place and needs help, we're probably not going to have suitable answers when we're gorging on trash.

I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

They are our children. We owe it to them to arm them with good knowledge, model healthy relationships, and understand that the relationships they see in the movies, on TV, and hear about in songs are usually not real and not healthy.

It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.