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Movies Quotes


"Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better."


"We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody."


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


"It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good."


"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"


"We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience."



"For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger."


"I like to look at the songs like they're little movies."


"The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour."


"I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors."


"Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts."


"I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up."


"Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I."


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


"I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies."


"And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television."


"Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!"


"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them."


"My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them."


"I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies."


"The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies."


"Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood."


"The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment."


"It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity."


"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."


"I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera."


"I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom."
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