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Movies Quotes
"The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative."
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"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."
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"I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days."
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"I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it."
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"It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else."
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"You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when."
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"It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others."
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"Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore."
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"That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story."
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"All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres."
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"Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences."
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"That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth."
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"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."
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"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."
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"I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet."
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"I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies."
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"My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them."
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"I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing."
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"You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies."
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"I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check."
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"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."
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"I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them."
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"You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies."
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"From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better."
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"I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies."
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"When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical."
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"It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies."
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"I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do."
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"But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be."
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