Quotes About Movies

We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too.

I want to make movies and pieces of television and pieces of art that crack everyone's assumptions.

Learning a craft is up to you, whether you are doing theatre or movies.

I'm so passionate and love the craft of movies and watch them over and over.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

When I make movies, I have a lot of respect for my audience. I think my audience is smart. If there's a way to be entertained and get things out - real things, not stupid moral crap - that's the best.

All of the John Carpenter movies scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

As a creative person, you want to be creative, you know? You don't want to constantly wait around - a lot of movies fall apart, or there's just not as much out there as there used to be.

When I watch alien movies, I want to be the alien. I don't want to be the people that make first contact or anything; I just want to be that creature.

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

Most times, I'm playing myself in films, like 'Rocky' or 'Creed.'

I've always liked dark, creepy movies, but for some reason, I started on the film scene with romantic comedies.

Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a week, it's really only something you can do for a few years. After a while, it's a bit too much.

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

It is not like I want all my films to run for more than 100 days. But I can't stand it when my movie is criticized.

We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

I'm not making films for critics, I'm making films for people to go out and enjoy.

The critics gave me bad reviews on every movie I made.

When I first began to work in pictures I tried to attract the attention of film critics, but I don't make movies to please them or myself anymore. I look for material that will entertain.