Movies Quotes

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

I don't like movies that are morally simple.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.

If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

Making movies is all about instinct.

You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

I like high impact movies.

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

I don't see scary movies. I've never seen 'The Exorcist' or 'Jaws'.

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.