Movies Quotes

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

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.