Movies Quotes

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 perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

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

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

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.

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.