Quotes About Movies

I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.

I'm not a person who's obsessed with scary movies or horror films or anything like that, so when I was watching the original 'Walking Dead,' I was kind of surprised at how into it I was getting.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

They don't have gangsters in Bay City. They're all working in pictures.

Movies are made out of darkness as well as light; it is the surpassingly brief intervals of darkness between each luminous still image that make it possible to assemble the many images into one moving picture. Without that darkness, there would only be a blur. Which is to say that a full-length movie consists of half an hour or an hour of pure darkness that goes unseen.

Los momentos gloriosos del arte, de los libros, las películas y la danza, son deliciosos porque nos vemos a nostros mismos en el espejo de la gloria

it's probably a good thing to go to the movies occasionally. The whole audience puts on the actor's face. No one needs his own. A movie's a place where you pay your money to exchange faces for a while.

She had looked at the movies again—all of them this time. Claire had rigged up Paul's laptop in the garage so she wouldn't have to sit in his office. Halfway through the first series of movies, she'd found herself somewhat anesthetized to the violence. Habituation, Paul would've explained, but fuck Paul and his stupid explanations.

Here was the problem with Jack Reacher: he was a bad guy who sometimes did good things. Given his itinerant lifestyle, Will thought of him as an American James Bond—not the Bond from the movies but the Bond from the books who was one level up from a street fighter. There was no M to temper his feralness. Reacher did not have a legal license to kill. Or maim. Or shoot people in their knees, which was a really mean thing to do, even to a stone-cold gangster.

studying Lydia. "Are you really sure you want to see it?" For the first time, Lydia felt real trepidation about the movies.

I'm convinced the reason they don't make James Bond movies anymore is because the stunts he used to do no longer impress us as people do that stuff on a wet Thursday afternoon in an office team building session. Even sweaty Pete from IT manages to get his fat arse into a jumpsuit so he can do a tandem jump with his head of

There's non-stop movie work for dwarves these days if they want it. I think it's because a lot of people are watching movies on iPads – they fit on the screen better.

Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.

I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

Movies portray men as tough guys.

When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female.

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like Welcome to the Dollhouse, I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.