Quotes About Movies

I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

I don't think I've made good movies. I've just made some movies more disgusting than others.

I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

Whatever I do, I like making good movies because I like to watch good movies. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.

Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a big budget movie if it had a great story.

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.

Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.

Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"

Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.