Movies Quotes

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me.

I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only place. But now there's none of that mystique, and so there's less of a reason to buy a ticket.

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.