Movies Quotes

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.

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.