Movies Quotes

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all.

When you're doing movies, you're traveling all over the world and you really can't be home.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.