Quotes About Cinema

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.

When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.

When I go to the movie theater, I want to get emotion from the actors in the movie.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.

I make movies I want to see.

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

'The Exorcist' is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.

I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

I don't like message movies either.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

3-D movies can make me nauseous.

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

So many things go on in life that never find their way into the movies because so much of it is unappealing. But that's what I want to show.