Movies Quotes

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

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.

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.

Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

There's more to life than movies.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

A lot of movies you do because they're fun, they make people forget about their day.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

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.