Movies Quotes

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

Movies are an editor's medium.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

Movies are movies, television is television.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.