Quotes About Movies

In fact, my face has shrunk in the meantime, but it won't be particularly noticeable because it's covered up with hair. So I hope I'm not alarmed if I ever do sit through the five movies.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

I would like to think I've reflected the audience's lives somehow, though it's in this big, false, glamorous arena of movies. I hope people see themselves somehow up on the screen.

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

I'm just gonna make movies the best I can, do the festival thing or whatever can come. I plan on working with a lot of the same guys over and over again. I hope the majority of us can stick together.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.

There are a lot of movies with vampires and monsters and super-great effects, but if there's no humor or human relations, I don't think it's ever worth seeing.

The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

I think I made good movies.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.