Movies Quotes

Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

There's more to life than movies.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

A lot of movies you do because they're fun, they make people forget about their day.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It's a great position, especially for a single guy like me.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.

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.