Movies Quotes

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.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

I would love to do a big studio movie, just because they're going to put the money into distributing it. A lot of times you do these little movies, you love them and they never get seen by anyone.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

I really love to make movies.

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.