Movies Quotes

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

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

We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.

There are many movies that have done it very badly. The studios have gone for quick profits and audiences are feeling angry. People aren't taking the time and spending the money to do it right. I am.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

All my movies are achingly personal.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done.

I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.

I only make movies I want to go see.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.