Movies Quotes

"So you see, movies are really another dimension."

Cecilia Bartoli, Italian Musician

Movies,

6

"But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang."

Ian McDiarmid, Scottish Actor

Movies, Character

6

"Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies."

Antoine Fuqua, American Director

Movies, Romance, Cinema, Magic

6

"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."

Manuel Puig, Argentinian Author

Movies, Fantasy, Old, Writing

6

"You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again."

Trevor Rabin, South African Musician

Movies,

5

"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Movies,

5

"The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

Movies, Fact, World

5

"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child."

Jessica Hagedorn, Filipino Writer

Movies, Imagination, Drama, Old

5

"I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something."

Famke Janssen, Dutch Actress

Movies, Money, Reason

4

"I only understand realism."

Manuel Puig, Argentinian Author

Movies, Realism

4

"I like to go to the movies or read."

Adriana Lima, Brazilian Model

Movies,

4

"Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy."

Bjork, Icelandic Musician

Movies, Energy

4

"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."

Yahoo Serious, Australian Director

Movies,

3

"Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out."

Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese Actress

Movies, Appreciation, Attention, Play

3

"Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are."

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian Director

Movies, People, Artists

3

"I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time."

John Leguizamo, Colombian Comedian

Movies, Time

3

"I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97."

Rick Moranis, Canadian Actor

Movies,

1

"There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic."

Andy Lau, Chinese Actor

Movies,

1

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

Jet Li, Chinese Actor

Movies, Buddhism, Past, Years

1

"Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that."

Zhang Ziyi, Chinese Actress

Movies, Wife, Ability, America

1

"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Movies, Years

1

"Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong."

Jet Li, Chinese Actor

Movies, Famous, Philosophy

1

"I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm."

Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director

Movies, Cinema, Project

1

"I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years."

Jackie Chan, Chinese Actor

Movies, Action, Will, Years

1

"I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies."

Tim Burton, American Director

Movies,

1

"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

1

"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."

Winona Ryder, American Actress

Movies, First, Ugly

1

"Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good."

Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director

Movies, English

1

"I aim for a lifetime full of movies."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

Movies,

1

"I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself."

Omar Sharif, Egyptian Actor

Movies, Film, Opinion

1

"All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours."

Tony Scott, British Director

Movies, Revenge

1

"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well."

Neil Jordan, Irish Director

Movies, American

1

"Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The Ant Bully did all that well the first week at the box office. Compare the movies that have a lot of celebrities with the Jimmy Neutron movie, which had no celebrity voices and grossed almost one hundred million dollars."

Rob Paulsen, American Actor

Movies, Celebrity, First, Office

1

"There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful."

Bill Condon, American Director

Movies, Successful, Question

1

"I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!"

Emma Stone, American Actress

Movies, Women, Teachers, Thinking

1

"I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind."

Gene Siskel, American Critic

Movies, Heroism, Mankind

1

"I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient."

Shiri Appleby, American Actress

Movies,

"I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies."

Ryan Gosling, Canadian Actor

Movies, People

"There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

Movies, Work, People, Want

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

Jill Robinson, American Novelist

Movies, Acting, America, Reason

"You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air."

Amy Sedaris, American Actress

Movies, Character, Actors, Old

"What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once."

Clive Barker, English Writer

Movies,

"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."

Joshua Leonard, American Actor

Movies, Development, Character, Connection

"I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view."

Tim Robbins, American Actor

Movies, Beliefs

"I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing."

Matt Damon, American Actor

Movies, Theory

"The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them."

Ralph Bakshi, American Director

Movies,

"So you see, movies are really another dimension."

6

"But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn't realize he would move in with quite such a bang."

6

"Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies."

6

"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."

6

"You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again."

5

"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."

5

"The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact."

5

"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child."

5

"I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something."

4

"I only understand realism."

4

"I like to go to the movies or read."

4

"Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy."

4

"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."

3

"Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out."

3

"Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are."

3

"I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time."

3

"I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97."

1

"There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic."

1

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

1

1

"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."

1

"Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong."

1

"I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm."

1

"I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years."

1

"I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies."

1

"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."

1

"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."

1

"Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good."

1

"I aim for a lifetime full of movies."

1

"I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself."

1

"All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours."

1

"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well."

1

1

"There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful."

1

"I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!"

1

"I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind."

1

"I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient."

​

"I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies."

​

"There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work."

​

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

​

"You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air."