Top 1200 Black Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

It's unfortunate that it's not realistic that you can get people to come to a movie theater not knowing anything about the movie.

I love Child's Play 2! That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That's why I wanted to do it. I was scared to do a horror movie - a blatant, studio horror movie - but I liked the script, and I thought that was such an important theme, because I don't think adults listen to children enough.

I really want to make something that makes people think. I love that movie 'Tiny Furniture' that Lena Dunham made. I just love that movie, and I laugh at that movie a lot, but I also felt a lot too. I'm just inspired by people like that.

It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.

I think people respond to truth. 'Straight Outta Compton' made $60 million over the weekend, right? That's not just a black audience. 'Empire' grew every single week. That's not just a black audience. Black culture is American culture, you know what I mean? They're becoming more and more one in the same.

Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

I did the movie [Valley of Violence] from two perspectives. You're with Ethan [Hawke] the whole movie, but for the first half, you're really with Ethan. For the second half, you're with him, but also you're with the bad guys because he kind of becomes the bad guy. No one's really good in the movie.

When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?'

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

I think, for me, I'm always more interested in the process of making the movie than the movie itself

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'

The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with a couple of friends at the movie theater to go see a movie, I can't remember which one it was, and we went to go see this movie instead that was rated R. That was sort of a defining moment, that was probably the first time I had ever lied to my parents about something.

I can see my songs in a movie as long as it's a movie no one will watch.

We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.

When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.

I felt like I lived my movie, my 'Rocky' movie. So that was cool.

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

It doesn't seem weird to me, at all. I'm in Baton Rouge getting ready to direct a movie for Sony, and I'm in the movie and I'm directing it. I know it's kind of this thing where some people find it difficult. I just finished a movie with Mario Van Peebles and he acted and directed as well too. I think we all feel similar that it just kind of seems natural.

I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

See I think we are nervous about every movie before it's release, irrespective of who has directed the movie.

The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.

'Moonlight' undoes our expectations as viewers, and as human beings, too. As we watch, another movie plays in our minds: real-life footage of the many forms of damage done to black men, which can sometimes lead them to turn that hateful madness on their own kind, passing on the poison that was their inheritance.

Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.

Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.

I think a movie released is better than a movie stuck.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me.

If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.

It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars].

Telltale signs that your movie is going to go bad is, one, the producer of the movie flees the country.

The golden age of Hollywood was the conceit of the movie and the style of the movie.

Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

Nationwide, 1 in 3 black men can expect to serve time behind bars, but the rates are far higher in segregated and impoverished black communities.

Playing in the NFL isn't really - and shouldn't have to be - every black boy's dream. But black boys don't always know that their dreams off the field matter.

Actors are real egomaniacs. They get into a movie, they think the whole movie's about them.

The 'Beavis and Butt-head' movie was just a movie-length version of the TV show.

Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.

I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.

When I watch a movie, I want movie stars to be in love too.

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

The look of the movie and the music, which was by Jack Nitzsche, is what really stands out to me. I don't know if the movie succeeds as a political, cultural comment on the times and the war in Vietnam, and the capitalists versus the everyday guy that gets sent off to fight corporate wars. I don't know if the movie ever succeeded in that range. But it was a wonderful part in the Cutter's Way.

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.

I'm going to go talk to some people to see if you could be in the movie because you should be in the movie.

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black man would be fighting for what he knows is his by right, but the movement on the part of [Martin Luther] King and the others had done nothing but slow down the militancy that is inherent in the nature of the black man.

My favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. It's a classic and I can pretty much recite the entire movie.

I've always spent a lot of time in movie theaters, kind of absorbing anything I can. I just love sitting in the dark, and watching the flickering image up there. Just sitting in a movie theater alone is inspiring to me. It takes a pretty bad movie to drain the magic out of that - but Lord knows, those movies exist.

I put in all the dirty words. It works really well. The thing that we found with 'Drive Angry,' more than anything else is that we wrote the movie that we wanted to see. I've done that before. I've wanted to see 'Jason X'. It did not become the movie that I thought it would be. That happens. It's happened with every movie I've ever done.

The movie that really 'did it for me' was 'All About Eve.' The backstage feeling, the authenticity, the passion those people had for their lives in the theater. I must say, the movie 'All About Eve,' what a great movie! 'All About Eve' had a profound effect on my life.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.