Movies Quotes

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.'

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

The thing that is incredibly helpful is that we screen the movies and we ask the audience if they like it or not and we ask a lot of questions and do testing on the movies. For comedies, at least, it's very helpful. If they're not laughing and they don't say that they loved it, then I have screwed up.

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

I love to watch movies.

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97.

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.