Movies Quotes

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...

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars...

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefe...

I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched ...

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I'm asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids l...

...I overheard Dorothy talking to Mr Montrose and she was telling Mr Montrose that she thought that ...

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Everything I learned I learned from themovies.

We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power.

Even though some individual scholars try to tell us there is no direct connection between images of ...

In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can ...

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around th...

‏@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happen...

In the movie I was played by an actor who actually looked more like me than the character the author...

You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your f...

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what the...

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's g...

It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on ...

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is tha...

It was Valentine's Day and I had spent the day in bed with my life partner, Ketel One. The two of us...

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He think...

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if...

Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as put...

Morning is the best time to see movies.

TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Inte...

Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say ...

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated co...

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watc...

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They giv...

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.