Movies Quotes

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

I loved "Clueless." That was one of my favorite movies of all time.

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.

Movies are too literal.

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.