Movies Quotes

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

I've been involved with violent movies, and then I've also said at a certain point, 'I can't take it anymore. Please cut it.' You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it's a really tough issue.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

Movies are an editor's medium.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'