Quotes About Movies

The single most important fact, perhaps, of the entire movie industry: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.

Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about newspaper reporters. For Naomi, internet sampling ad scratching was a completely valid form of journalism, presenting no ethical clouds on its open-source horizon.

used to put movies down by saying that they were 'deep on the surface' --meaning that there was nothing underneath.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

It is a strange, repetitive feature of action movies that the infuriating go-by-the-rules boss of the maverick hero is almost invariably Black.)

My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.

I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that we're smart. And that there's stuff that TV and movies—although they're great at certain things—cannot give us.

roles in True Romance and Crimson Tide—is a young, pre-Sopranos James Gandolfini. Glory, Marshall Herskowitz, 1989. Broadcast News, James L. Brooks, 1986.

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

God bless the popcorn film. Especially movies where you can take the kids, because I remember looking forward to seeing these movies with my parents, and if I can give that back, I'm gonna do it.

You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right."

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else.

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.