Quotes About Movies

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Because of the movies I make, people get nervous, because they think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

You want us to take on a job about funny books?" "They're graphic novels," Hardison said in a grave tone. "And it's a serious art form. They're the most vibrant format for modern literature. And—and they make freaking great movies. I mean, have you seen The Avengers ?

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

I came across Piper deep in conversation with Jet one afternoon and when I asked her what they were talking about she shrugged and said Dog Things. Sometimes the loneliness of being the odd man out in these conversation got to me but most of the time I just ignored it. I like old movies. She talks to dogs.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

It was a kiss perfect in length and pressure and emotion, but unlike in the movies it didn't make everything all better.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

Tom made her watch all three movies one afternoon," Justine says. "I wonder if Tara's ever forgiven you." The phone beeps again and she reads, "I want those ten hours of my life back.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

Someone, maybe it was Pauline Kael, once wrote that "we all love good movies but a true cinephile is someone who totally digs talking about the worst movies they've seen.