Movies Quotes

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

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.

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized.

People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.

I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.