Quotes About Movies

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!

Words and action in movies are the spirit or the mind. And these days the body is almost completely forgotten. In the beginning the body - nature - was more part of the action.

Some movies - even movies you've done way before - they're just clearer in nature.

Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

I got married to Chris Sarandon, who was a graduate student, and he knew everything at that point, I thought, because he was older. He introduced me to poetry and black-and-white movies.

If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

I think all movies are political. The ones that are not political intentionally are the worst, and have the worst politics, I think.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.

There's a power that movies and music has, that can move you and motivate you to look at your neighbor in a slightly more respectful way, and look at cultures in a more inclusive way.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.