Movies Quotes

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

I love talking about movies that mean something to me.

I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.

I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me.

I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

There are different reasons to make movies.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies.

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.