Movies Quotes

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely.

I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

I only make movies to finance my fishing'.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

All I do is go to the movies.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.