Movies Quotes

If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Movies are like magic tricks.

I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.