Movies Quotes

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.'

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

Movies are movies, television is television.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.