Movies Quotes

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win.

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?

I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch "Singin' in the Rain" and "White Christmas" - those kind of movies.

I do like to move and get physical in my movies.

I want to get into movies, not just TV series.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can't really kill someone, and you don't want to really hurt them.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.