Quotes About Movies

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

You're sure he's not a vampire?' Claire said.'I've seen movies. They're sneaky.' She was kidding. Eve didn't smile.

'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anything that will get me to smile.

I wouldn't call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy saves my life every day.

All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and enforce conformity as they ever were by libertarians to expand it.

She reflected that the Mad Max movies had been skillfully edited to erase the actual tedium of driving through outback Australia.

It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you've got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch. -- Co.Create Online, 2-14-12

Meat movies... In which the horror rests with the idea of doing to humans what humans do each day to trees in their thousands. Yes, as a symbol... Close your eyes, Mrs. Cable. Close your eyes and shout 'timber'.

When most of our contemporary superhero movies are showcases for their escalating special effects, then the question of which film has the greater cinematic or artistic value becomes a matter of competing CGI workshops, and goes better unasked.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady ' 'Funny Face ' 'American in Paris ' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.

Movies are movies, television is television.

The media and the movies are showing you their desperation as they insist in presenting to the masses information that is completely negative and fear-based. Subject matter such as murder, death and betrayal, attacks and such that keep the consciousness focused on these matters, as opposed to portraying in the media images of hope and inspiration. But nevertheless, there are enough of those positive messages being broadcast at this time, that like a domino effect, they are no longer stoppable.

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.