"Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea."

Movies, Play, World

39

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea."

Exlpore more Movies quotes

"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."

Jason Statham, British Actor

Movies, People, Compliment

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Movies, Being, Choice

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Movies, Majority

"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

Jason Statham, British Actor

Movies,

"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Movies, Decisions, Television

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Movies, Jazz, Writers

"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."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

Movies, Film, Responsibility

"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?"

Christian Bale, Welsh Actor

Movies, Idea, Character

"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."

John Sayles, American Director

Movies, First

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

Movies, Being, Reason

Explore more quotes by Robert Benton

"I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible."

Emotional

"My education was an education by movies."

Education

"Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors."

Love

"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."

Film

"I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex."

Sex

"In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children."

Age

"Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea."

Movies