Movies Quotes

I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.

Movies are different from real life.

I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry.

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

Normally I avoid movies where the aliens look like humans. It's cheesy.

Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.