You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people’s maps will be the same. Mary Schmich
Film lovers are sick people. Francois Truffaut
Most of us do not consciously look at movies. Roger Ebert
You read a script and its based on ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’, and it goes right in the bin. Tim Roth
Everybody’s a filmmaker today. John Milius
I’m married to the theater but my mistress is the films. Oskar Werner
I don’t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can’t kiss a movie. Jean-Luc Godard
If you don’t like my movies, don’t watch them. Dario Argento
There’s an electrical thing about movies. Oliver Stone
I make movies I want to see. Neil LaBute
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher. Pauline Kael
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it. Wim Wenders
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses. Richard King
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. Yahoo Serious
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. Sydney Pollack
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. Sydney Pollack
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater. John Hughes
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. Douglas Sirk
Movies are not scripts – movies are films they’re not books, they’re not the theatre. Nicolas Roeg
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that’s different than you imagine it. Alex Winter
I’ve always been an animal lover. I’ve grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on ‘Lassie’, I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie. Will Estes
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore. Dennis Quaid
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose. Roland Emmerich
“Home Alone’ was a movie, not an alibi.;Jerry Orbach;movies
49192;It couldn’t sound like a dog, because K9 isn’t a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.;John Leeson;movies
49193;We are the movies and the movies are us.;David Ansen;movies
49194;Everything I learned I learned from the movies.;Audrey Hepburn;movies
49195;Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.;Marilyn Monroe;movies
49196;My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.;Will Smith;movies
49197;I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.;Will Smith;movies
49198;Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.;Johnny Depp;movies
49199;There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.;Clint Eastwood;movies
49200;Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.;Charlie Chaplin;movies
49201;Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.;F. Scott Fitzgerald;movies
49202;One of my movies was called ‘True Lies.’ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.;Arnold Schwarzenegger;movies
49203;Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don’t any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.;Chuck Palahniuk;movies
49204;And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.;Harvey Fierstein;movies
49205;Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it’s story heavy, it’s about ideas.;Harvey Fierstein;movies
49206;Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don’t.;Harvey Fierstein;movies
49207;I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.;Arnold Schwarzenegger;movies
49208;I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that’s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn’t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.;Stephen King;movies
49209;Somebody asked me about the current choice we’re being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it’s like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.;Dean Koontz;movies
49210;To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49211;The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.;Bette Davis;movies
49212;By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.;Roger Ebert;movies
49213;I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.;Steven Spielberg;movies
49214;When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.;Elvis Presley;movies
49215;So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I’m on the set, but I don’t take myself seriously as an actor.;Henry Rollins;movies
49216;Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role… I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘We want to remake ‘The Jerk’ with so and so.’ And I say, ‘Fine.’ It just doesn’t bother me. It’s an honor actually.;Steve Martin;movies
49217;I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that’s happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop – stop dead – and I miss it.;Richard Pryor;movies
49218;My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49219;Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49220;I’m not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49221;Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49222;If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49223;All my movies are achingly personal.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49224;I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49225;I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I’m attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn’t quite what I’m seeing – taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I’ve never seen before.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49226;Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.;Liam Neeson;movies
49227;I don’t really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.;Steven Spielberg;movies
49228;I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.;Steven Spielberg;movies
49229;Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the ‘Thomas Crown Affair’. It’s, it’s, I don’t know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It’s the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it’s not.;Daniel Craig;movies
49230;I didn’t grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.;Sydney Pollack;movies
49231;I have been pregnant in so many movies it’s ridiculous.;Jennifer Aniston;movies
49232;There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.;Jennifer Aniston;movies
49233;My nominee for Best Picture of the year – maybe the best picture ever, because it’s essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies – is Christian Marclay’s endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece ‘The Clock.” Jerry Saltz
I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead. Michael Caine
I’ve been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies. Alanis Morissette
I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn’t being made. Michael J. Fox
I can be in 20 movies. But I’ll never be an actor. Jon Stewart
My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic. Christina Ricci
In life and in movies, it’s a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations. Jeff Bridges
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. David Lynch
Right now, my job is that I’m like an ambulance chaser. I’ve got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them. Chris Rock
Movies have takes. But plays are like life – you don’t really get takes. Chris Rock
Dude, I didn’t say Jude Law can’t act. I didn’t say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he’s in every movie. Chris Rock
My movies are okay, but they’re not my specials. Chris Rock
I’m not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars. Steve Guttenberg
I’m obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books. Kevin Bacon
Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles – it’s a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. Morgan Freeman
Movies are like magic tricks. Jeff Bridges
I’d maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do. Jeff Bridges
I’m used to watching old movies of myself. Jeff Bridges
Movies are very subjective. Jeff Bridges
Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that. Jeff Bridges
I’m very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it’s one of the great things about making movies is it’s a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character’s costume and what that might tell about your character. Jeff Bridges
I think there’s a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself. Jeff Bridges
Nowadays it seems more and more like the ‘business’ in ‘show business’ is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it’s all part of getting people in to see the movies. Jeff Bridges
Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay. Aishwarya Rai
I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,’ which is what happened when we did ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ Starting my production company was a big turning point for me. Drew Barrymore
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn’t normal. I didn’t have to go to school, so I didn’t. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I’m almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I’m crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class. Drew Barrymore
I love doing normal things – movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths – that’s a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. Christina Aguilera
You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and ‘behind the scenes,’ and now it’s a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret. Daniel Craig
Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old. Elvis Presley
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army. Elvis Presley
If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. Kathryn Bigelow
Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren’t allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn’t really know anything different. That’s how I was raised. Katy Perry
My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else. Martin Scorsese
Very often I’ve known people who wouldn’t say a word to each other, but they’d go to see movies together and experience life that way. Martin Scorsese
I’ve seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films. Martin Scorsese
I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies. Julia Roberts
I’m doing ‘Les Miserables,’ the movie. I’ve done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I’ve been like, ‘Come on, let’s do a movie/musical.’ Hugh Jackman
I have done many movies that people hadn’t seen. ‘The Fountain,’ I spent a year on that. ‘The Prestige’ with Chris Nolan, and ‘Australia.’ From my perspective it’s very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don’t. ‘Wolverine,’ ‘X Men,’ I know that in some level people know me just for that and it’s fine for me. Hugh Jackman
The best movies are simple. Shia LaBeouf
Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone. Shia LaBeouf
I’m not a strikingly handsome guy, but I’m in movies. Shia LaBeouf
I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns. Shia LaBeouf
Basically, there’s not enough sex in movies, that’s it. I’m trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not. Zoe Saldana
You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, ‘Don’t go in that door!’ because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends. Marco Rubio
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were. Elvis Presley
Those movies sure got me into a rut. Elvis Presley
Too much TV hurts movies. Elvis Presley
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons. Michael Caine
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out. Michael Caine
My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we’re still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be. Michael Caine
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. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. Tim Burton
I don’t want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry – directors and producers – are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames. Shigeru Miyamoto
Even the worst Bond movies, there’s something to love about them. Daniel Craig
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that’s never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies. Daniel Day-Lewis
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. Daniel Day-Lewis
My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch. Russell Crowe
I’m not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring. Catherine Deneuve
How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed. Keanu Reeves
Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that. Ang Lee
In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power. Elizabeth Wurtzel
I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films. Megan Fox
When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father’s hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies. Charles Kuralt
Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot. Jack Nicholson
I really don’t have favorites I’m just a fan of movies, period. Michael Clarke Duncan
Hollywood is throwing action movies at me. Liam Neeson
I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn’t understand what being an actor meant anymore. Liam Neeson
Before ‘Schindler’s List,’ I wouldn’t have believed movies had a lot of power for social change. Liam Neeson
A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together. Louis C. K.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they’re mean bastards at heart. J. D. Salinger
Sure, ‘Twilight’ is really huge right now and everybody’s freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I’m used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees. Kristen Stewart
I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises. Catherine Deneuve
I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. Catherine Deneuve
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
When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures. Keanu Reeves
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent. Billy Joel
In the past I’ve made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can’t really hate them. You can discard them, but you can’t really hate them. Ang Lee
I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making. Ang Lee
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about. Ang Lee
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances. Ang Lee
Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn’t making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member. Ang Lee
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world. Ang Lee
After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism. Ang Lee
3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we’re just taking baby steps, we’re just in the beginning. Ang Lee
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. Meryl Streep
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as ‘Tarzan.’ Henry Louis Gates
My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as ‘Tarzan’ and in programs such as ‘Ramar of the Jungle’ and ‘Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.’ Henry Louis Gates
I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook. Joan Jett
I think that’s what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There’s no melodrama there’s no device, It’s just about a human being. Jack Nicholson
Movies make you immortal and ageless. Kristin Scott Thomas
I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat. Louis C. K.
I don’t like comedy. I like funny things. I don’t like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, ‘Oh Jesus.’ Louis C. K.
For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies. Jackie Chan
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years. Jackie Chan
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that’s there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. Edward Zwick
If people are constantly reading about you, and you’re overexposed, they’ve got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it’s not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded. John Cusack
I think it’s better to be involved in one or two movies a year. Eric Cantona
They say I can open movies, and that’s nice in that it puts into people’s minds that women can do it. It’s not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys. Julia Roberts
Making movies is not rocket science. It’s about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That’s a challenge. When it works, it’s fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn’t work, it’s almost just as fascinating. Julia Roberts
I’ve made so many movies playing a hooker that they don’t pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser. Shirley MacLaine
And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy. Nicolas Cage
Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that. Demi Lovato
I’ve had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that’s OK with me. I don’t feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular? Kevin Costner
I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it. Denzel Washington
I don’t want to make movies for kids, and I don’t want to make movies for adults either. Kristen Stewart
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies. John Podhoretz
What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films – their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil. John Podhoretz
Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid. Anthony Hopkins
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On. Sting
I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I’m in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It’s so unnatural and uncomfortable. Amanda Seyfried
I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that. Adam Sandler
I played Winnie Cooper on ‘The Wonder Years’ from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers. Danica McKellar
I used to love to go to the movies – I’d see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started… now that I think about it, that’s kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don’t sneak in anymore. Danica McKellar
Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn’t make it. Richard Pryor
I really like children to watch my movies. Jackie Chan
I’ve choreographed all of my movies. Jackie Chan
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee. Jackie Chan
Most of the time it’s the role. Sometimes it’s the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It’s the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I’m saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy. Morgan Freeman
It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it. Morgan Freeman
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. Morgan Freeman
Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it’s helpful. So the fact that there won’t be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that’d be helpful. John Cusack
The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful. Christina Ricci
Movies such as ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ in 1939 to ‘Dave’ in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen – decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness. Ron Fournier
I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did. Diablo Cody
People don’t have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies. Diablo Cody
I’m not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies. Diablo Cody
I don’t know why, but I’ve always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies. Diablo Cody
Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. Maurice Sendak
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he’d have me put on a jacket to see a film. Ralph Fiennes
You can’t work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. John Malkovich
I like very much to do movies. John Malkovich
I like to direct movies, but I don’t like to goof around for eight years talking about it. John Malkovich
Quite often – a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. John Malkovich
You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I’ve done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there’s a lot of work that goes into it. Harry Connick, Jr.
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense. Marc Andreessen
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He’s very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he’s been very successful. Francis Ford Coppola
When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget. Francis Ford Coppola
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book. Francis Ford Coppola
I’m no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can. Francis Ford Coppola
I’ve been offered lots of movies. There’s always some actor who’s doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, ‘Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.’ I’d like to do something only I can do. Francis Ford Coppola
People feel the worst film I made was ‘Jack.’ But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I’ve made, ‘Jack’ is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams. Francis Ford Coppola
I’m not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus. David Bailey
I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn’t want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn’t have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It’s funny because I’d always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn’t think that I would be in the movies. Kristen Stewart
I like being in movies that have a great story. I’m not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It’s a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work. Kristen Stewart
I mean, I love L.A. – I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It’s a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don’t do that every time, then you’re considered a failure. But it’s like, ‘Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?’ Kristen Stewart
It’s not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I’ve never quite believed actors when they say they don’t watch themselves. Kristen Stewart
It’s a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do – you’re proud of it – and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable. Kristen Stewart
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. David Ogden Stiers
I love movies that make me cry, because they’re tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that? John Lasseter
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed. Meryl Streep
I mean, why am I considered an ‘it girl?’ Because I’m in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here’s the thing with ‘it girl’ status. It’s great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last? Amanda Seyfried
It’s like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They’re scared, but they’re not going to get hurt. Vincent D’Onofrio
I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up. Jenny McCarthy
I wouldn’t like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do. Stevie Nicks
I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies. Carrie Underwood
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
I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible. Adam Sandler
Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for. Adam Sandler
I like movies I can relate to. Kim Cattrall
I don’t know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don’t know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise’s movies because they’re on a kind of fantastic level. Kim Cattrall
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things. Antonio Banderas
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age. Lena Dunham
I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge. Lena Dunham
Movies are movies, and I don’t think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense. Richard Pryor
I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted. John Cusack
I love these movies where it’s just about the film. You don’t have my face on the poster. It’s all about the movie. I like that. John Cusack
It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don’t know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot. John Cusack
The movies have got more corporate, they’re making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen. John Cusack
Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life. John Cusack
I don’t want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it’s just too hard these days. John Cusack
I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn’t before. John Cusack
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the ’50s and ’60s and ’70s. John Cusack
I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who’s to say anybody’s even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I’ve done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later. John Cusack
It’s like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they’re, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable. John Cusack
Most movies, once the action starts there’s no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there’s just explosions until the end. John Cusack
Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don’t choose to see Horror movies as a rule. Tom Sizemore
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. Clive Owen
I go off and make movies I come home, and I’m a dad and I hang with my girls. Clive Owen
The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there’s no question. Clive Owen
A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you’ve got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don’t have that hunger. Clive Owen
Obviously, I’m attracted to heavier movies. Clive Owen
I want to be in movies that stand the test of time. Clive Owen
Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can’t sustain a career in just English movies. Clive Owen
A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn’t intend to be there. Spike Lee
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies. Stephen Sondheim
You’re creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them. Daniel Craig
When you’re making movies you’ve got to get obsessive. Daniel Craig
I guess you could say I’ve been in my share of violent movies. Daniel Craig
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good. Daniel Craig
I always wanted to make movies. Daniel Craig
If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don’t want to just make spy movies. Daniel Craig
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games. Haruki Murakami
It’s the contemporary woman that movies don’t know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners. James Wolcott
People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are. Mindy Kaling
I have a great job writing for ‘The Office,’ but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I’ll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. Mindy Kaling
Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling – that there’s nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can. Mindy Kaling
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. Kevin Costner
I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies. Denzel Washington
Growing up I didn’t watch movies. Denzel Washington
It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at. Denzel Washington
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. Sylvester Stallone
I made some truly awful movies. ‘Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot’ was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes. Sylvester Stallone
Now, if you are like me – if you are like practically anybody in America – then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or… you know… all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime. Elizabeth Gilbert
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it’s still evolving in different ways. David Mamet
I’m not impressed by someone’s degree… I’m impressed by them making movies. Richard King
I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it. Lana Parrilla
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
I think we’re very complicated and we’re capable of all kinds of things, and movies don’t reflect that. Ryan Gosling
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
A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action. Jason Statham
How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. Gary Oldman
I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies. Gary Oldman
The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read – those are important to me. It’s very important to me, and I don’t know what I would do without those things. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn’t have to be white, and the other one doesn’t have to be the ethnic sidekick. We’re way over that. And I think it’s happening in society, too. Roger Ebert
I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That’s what my life was. Jennifer Lopez
I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there’ll be no time when I feel I’ve done it all. Jennifer Lopez
No, but way before that, I’ve been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual. Christopher Walken
I’ve made movies that we’re very successful that we’re a complete surprise, and I’ve made movies that I thought we’re going to be very successful that, you know. Christopher Walken
My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies. Christopher Walken
I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies. Christopher Walken
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
When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV. Christopher Walken
I think if you do something effectively whether you’re the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you’ll get asked to play that part again. Christopher Walken
I have been in movies that I thought I wasn’t very good in. Christopher Walken
I make movies that nobody will see. I’ve made movies that even I have never seen. Christopher Walken
I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me. Christopher Walken
I’ve made movies that I thought were good. I’ve made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you’re in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that – because you’re good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that’s show business. Christopher Walken
I aim for a lifetime full of movies. Salma Hayek
I don’t know why I don’t watch a lot of movies I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn’t enough time in life. Meryl Streep
It was like in Samoa when they’d put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim. Dick Wolf
And being as I’m somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them. Christian Bale
In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they’ll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron. Christian Bale
There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they’re freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine. Christian Bale
I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It’s wonderful, isn’t it? Christian Bale
I don’t get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can’t help but feel like this reduces it a little bit. Christian Bale
I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people’s favorite movies. And that’s what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else. Christian Bale
I’m so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies. Ashley Tisdale
I can’t watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out. Ashley Tisdale
Where I live, nobody who’s fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it’s so important to preserve your innocence. Natalie Portman
There are movies where we are interested in seeing people’s lives without agreeing with what they’re doing. Natalie Portman
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make. Laura Linney
The best movies have one sentence that they’re exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. Helen Hunt
Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don’t think of it as just movies, but as a life. Jason Reitman
I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I’m not