Movies Quotes

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.

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

I cry at movies.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

I like to go to the movies or read.

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.

I don't like message movies either.

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

I want to do movies but not talk about them.

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.