Movies Quotes

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.

If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.

I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.

Film lovers are sick people.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

I was made for action movies.