Movies Quotes

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of ...

...the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more picture...

Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice abou...

How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been ...

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything...

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss ...

But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not...

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smel...

I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town si...

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Holly...

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractio...

Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic.

Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could’ve been good. There’s an idea somewhere in almost ...

Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and t...

Query: Why am I so bitter against Life? And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema,...

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. ...

People always ask me if I hate the nuns. Do I make my movies extra dirty to piss them off? I always ...

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For...

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes ho...

Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

How long is forever?Sometimes just one second

A stage adaptation of The Giver has been performed in cities and towns across the USA for years. Mor...

Dreams rise in the darkness and catch fire from the mirage of moving light. What happens on the scre...

Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

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 am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, a...

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out

Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to oth...

The most interesting of the classic movie genres to me are the indigenous ones: the Western, which w...

[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are sca...

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wante...

Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actu...

The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.

A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *...

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyo...

It was personal to me." ~Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) in You've Got Mail

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family,...

In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and s...

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic ...

I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.

The brains of members of the Press departments of motion-picture studios resemble soup at a cheap re...

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or com...

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason t...

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slippin...

The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistake...

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "...

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw t...

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on ...

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is ...

Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish...

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missin...

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airpo...

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I...

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing,...

The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience f...

Never marry someone who doesn’t love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love...

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

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in...

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to...

If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar s...

And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceles...

In Woody Allen movies people stood in line for Ingmar Bergman films or Holocaust documentaries talki...

If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational....

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods an...

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience a...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—bec...

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it'...

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so th...

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies...

You call that a kiss?

Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone...

People go to the movies instead of moving.

I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, ...

Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobb...

Wanna see how creepy I can be?"-Mr Teatime

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af...

Hey, I got an idea, let’s go to the movies. I wanna go to the movies, I want to take you all to the ...

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriousl...

Really good films don't diminish anything, they don't close things off. On the contrary, they open u...

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure me...