Quotes About Movies

I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.

I only make movies to finance my fishing.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

I like people who love books and movies and art and want to talk about it all the time, because that's basically what I want to talk about. Intellectuals that are funny.

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different.

I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist.

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.