Movies Quotes

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Movies are like magic tricks.

I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.

I like both movies and TV, so I don't have some big grand plan.

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

I want to make timeless movies.

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.