Movies Quotes

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me.

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

Too much TV hurts movies.

I like to make movies I like to watch.

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.

I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.