Movies Quotes | Beyond Motive 5/19

top of page

Movies Quotes

"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse."

"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse."

Jodie Foster, American Actress

Movies, People, Idea

9

"My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think."

"My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think."

Adam Sandler, American Actor

Movies, Attention, Care, World

9

"I like movies that make you think."

"I like movies that make you think."

Robin Wright Penn, American Actress

9

"Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag."

"Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag."

Pia Zadora, American Actress

Movies, People, Direction

9

"If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career."

"If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career."

Larry Wachowski, American Director

Movies, Audiences, Career, Value

9

"Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century."

"Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century."

Ray Manzarek, American Musician

9

"I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way."

"I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way."

Paul Mazursky, American Actor

Movies, Audiences, Hurt, Office

9

"Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies."

"Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies."

Jeffrey Wright, American Actor

Movies, Kitchen, Want

9

"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."

"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."

Gene Siskel, American Critic

9

"I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies."

"I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies."

Leonardo DiCaprio, American Actor

Movies, People, Want, Will

9

"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."

"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

9

"I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning."

"I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning."

Joseph Bologna, American Actor

9

"We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies."

"We always thought that we'd go on from the show to have a career in movies."

Kevin McDonald, Canadian Comedian

Movies, Thought, Career

9

"The fact is, it's hard to release movies."

"The fact is, it's hard to release movies."

Campbell Scott, American Actor

9

"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me."

"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me."

Tim Burton, American Director

Movies, Therapy

9

"Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke."

"Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke."

W. Averell Harriman, American Politician

Movies, Americans, Difficulties, Russia

9

"The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons."

"The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons."

Robert MacNeil, Canadian Journalist

Movies, Being, Luxury, Now

9

"But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all."

"But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all."

Brian Lumley, English Writer

Movies, Death, Kiss, Talk

9

"I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left."

"I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left."

Marc Wallice, American Actor

9

"Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?"

"Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?"

Evan Dando, American Musician

Movies, Act, Right, Stars

9

"De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself."

"De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor

Movies, Day, Horror

9

"And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly."

"And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly."

Ridley Scott, British Director

Movies, Relationships

9

"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."

"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."

John Cusack, American Actor

9

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

"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

9

"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'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."

Winona Ryder, American Actress

Movies, Adolescence

9

"I have a record company starting. It's called Flesh Records and I'm putting together music for porno movies."

"I have a record company starting. It's called Flesh Records and I'm putting together music for porno movies."

Adam Jones, American Musician

Movies, Music, Company

9

"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."

"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."

Christopher Walken, American Actor

9

"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."

"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."

Jodie Foster, American Actress

Movies, Action, Writing

9

"I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film."

"I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film."

Sam Mendes, British Director

Movies, Film, First, Style

9

"I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot."

"I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot."

Pia Zadora, American Actress

Movies, Information, Violence

9

"I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me."

"I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me."

Ray Liotta, American Actor

9

"Movies are just ridiculously expensive."

"Movies are just ridiculously expensive."

Anthony Michael Hall, American Actor

9

"So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens."

"So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens."

David Zucker, American Director

Movies, First, Kids, Now, Office

9

"Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out."

"Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out."

Monica Lewinsky, American Celebrity

Movies, Idea, Books, Press

9

"I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies."

"I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies."

Eva Herzigova, Czechoslovakian Model

9

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

"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

9

"Growing up I didn't watch movies."

"Growing up I didn't watch movies."

Denzel Washington, American Actor

Movies, Growing up

9

"Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?"

"Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?"

Ed Wood, American Director

Movies, Successful, Now, Profit

9

"When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America."

"When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America."

Warren Beatty, American Actor

Movies, America, Media

9

"I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects."

"I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects."

Ursula Andress, Swiss Actress

Movies, Fun, Hate, Now

9

"But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies."

"But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies."

Aaron Eckhart, American Actor

Movies, Sex, School

9

"I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie."

"I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie."

William Peter Blatty, American Writer

9

"I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene."

"I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene."

Bob Odenkirk, American Actor

Movies, Corporate, Now, Right

9

"In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it."

"In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it."

Gerald McRaney, American Actor

Movies, People, Hollywood, Smoking

9

"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake."

"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

9

"Everything I learned I learned from the movies."

"Everything I learned I learned from the movies."

Audrey Hepburn, Belgian Actress

9

"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"

"It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?"

Bud Abbott, American Actor

Movies, Home, Television

9

"Too much TV hurts movies."

"Too much TV hurts movies."

Elvis Presley, American Musician

9

"I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials."

"I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials."

Sam Elliott, American Actor

9

"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."

"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."

Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress

Movies, Time, America

9

bottom of page