Movies Quotes

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool.

There's this index that tallies up how much your movies have made, and if they haven't grossed a certain amount, then you're not bankable. I know I'm not Will Smith but, you know, my ranking's pretty low. The only studio picture I've done is 'Zodiac,' and that didn't perform that well.

I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.

How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.