Movies Quotes

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.

I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me.

I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.

There are different reasons to make movies.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.