Quotes About Movies

There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

I really love the Marvel universe, one of my favorite is Daredevil. I really love also the Punisher and I don't understand why they made so many bad movies on that character.

I do enjoy animated movies.

The most effective 3D movies I have ever seen are the animated movies because they are designed.

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

Warner Bros. is really open-minded, as far as studios go, when it comes to the types of movies they'll entertain, even with animated movies. It's a great place to be.

I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I might as well direct one myself!"

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be great.

What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.

For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.