Quotes About Movies

I'm actually pretty afraid of scary movies, so I can't watch them at night, but I am a fan during the daytime!

I love movies and there's something close to me about James Dean - I always wanted to do choreography on him.

I eat, sleep, and breathe movies. Though I didn't understand the seriousness of films when I made my debut, I felt on top of the world.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

Even more than 'Swingers,' 'Go', for me, defines my career.

In 'Delhi Belly,' I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look.

It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

Of course, every movie is political, some people just deny it because they like the world the way it is.

I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I loved movies and television growing up, but I'd never thought about it as, 'Oh, that guy Denzel Washington is employed as an actor.'

Depending on how 'Doctor Sleep' does, we'll see what movie opportunities there will be.

When people say, 'I know you. What have I seen you in?' I respond, 'Well, it depends on how old you are.'

The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

We have a lot of respect for the fact that you can't make movies without money and that when money comes to the table, that money deserves to have a place in the process as much as anything else in the film-making equation.

I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.

I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

I like those kinds of songs that have details that you remember and that have stories that mean something and that open up into different levels philosophically. I like those kinds of movies, and I like those kinds of books.

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into a dramatisation of the different scenes.

Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my down time by catching up on reading or watching all those Criterion Collection movies I'd always meant to watch.

I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.

I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies.