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Movies Quotes
"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."
10
"When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood."
9
"When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything."
9
"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion."
8
"After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie."
8
"I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars."
8
"You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try."
8
"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies."
8
"Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut."
8
"Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies."
8
"I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him."
8
"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."
7
"I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series."
7
"Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke."
7
"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."
7
"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
7
"Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real."
7
"And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is."
7
"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."
7
"Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously."
7
"I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get."
7
"Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger."
7
"I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies."
7
"You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them."
7
"I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them."
6
"They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies."
6
"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way."
6
"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
6
"I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche."
6
"My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience."
6
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