Quotes About Movies

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes.

I'd formed a research and development company under the banner of Paramount Pictures back in about 1975, and its mandate was to explore advanced forms of entertainment, not just movies.

I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

I am so scared of the 'Paranormal Activity' movies. I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep.

I was lucky enough to have made a tonne of mistakes and be kind of frustrated. I was working in the movies for 15 years before I did 'Paranormal Activity,' so I was lucky enough to have that experience. So instead of trying to make, like, 'Godzilla' after 'Paranormal Activity,' I said, 'Let's keep making inexpensive movies.'

I've made $50 million over the years as a movie star, if you'll pardon the expression, and I've given most of it to the bookies.

If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.

France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find in the movies of David Lynch.

The first fashion show I ever attended was for Ritu Beri in 1997 or 1998. I think that was the first time Ritu had designed for one of my movies 'Yeh Raastein Hain Pyaar Ke.' She had done a show in Paris, and she had done the same show in Delhi. It was very eclectic, and I love the way she combines colours and makes them flamboyant.

I'm super-into sappy movies like 'La La Land' and 'Midnight in Paris.'

'Jurassic Park' is probably the movie that got me wanting to make movies. It's fun, but it's not totally gruesome.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

At the end of the day, I want to spend time with my daughter, and this schedule enables me to do that while still having fun hosting '106 & Park.' I'm not really eager to get back into music just yet; I'm really eager to get into another movie before I put out an album.

When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.

I'm an actor because of movies like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Jurassic Park.'

I don't really go to fancy parties, so I'm not really familiar with that kind of celebrity lifestyle. I don't dress up a lot. My girlfriend and I walk a lot and watch a lot of movies, and my friends and I go to the park or each others' houses.

I've been a huge fan of the 'Jurassic Park' movies. It was one of the reasons why I wanted to be an actor.

I am a big fan of 'E.T.,' of course. And I remember watching 'Jurassic Park' - I was so into it. Oh, and 'Schindler's List.' That one was amazing, too.

In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.

Hits and flops are part and parcel of movie business.

Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

I make cameos in all my movies for no particular reason other than a joke. It's just a Hitchcock thing.

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.