Movies Quotes

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.

It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.

I like movies I can relate to.

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.

The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.