Movies Quotes

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!