Movies Quotes

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.

I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

I just always had a love for television and movies.

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.