Movies Quotes

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

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

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

I like the good feeling movies.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

I don't like movies that are morally simple.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

I think I made good movies.

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.