Top 1200 Black Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.

I was confused as to what kind of movie to do after 'A Aa'. It's then that someone suggested to me that I shouldn't do a soft movie once again.

I wear black a lot. I like black.

If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.

When I am sitting in a movie theater with my girlfriends or boyfriend, I think how cool would it be to watch a movie with me in it.

Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that it can possible come.

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

My father is black - was black. My mother is white.

It's weird when one movie that's connected to another doesn't reference that movie at all.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

If I could spend the rest of my life inside one movie it would be The Godfather, because it's the greatest movie ever made.

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

It's rare that a movie generally considered a popcorn type movie, gets recognized among such serious, great fare.

I'm always thinking about what a black lady would think about what I'm doing, just because I feel like they have such great taste, mostly because as black women, we've spent a lot of time downloading what a white male narrative is, so in my head, I'm like, 'If a black woman likes it, if she responds to it, then it's probably pretty damn great.'

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

I love black and yellow. Black and yellow is Batman; black and yellow is Spongebob!

Well, 'Terminator', it's just such an iconic movie in movie history. It's universal. I think it's part of the pop culture of the world.

Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!" That's not what I saw necessarily but I don't think any two people see the same movie.

I don't like black. You wear black when you're miserable.

I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.

When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.

And if you want to make many of our black leaders angry, just tell them that racism is not the number problem that black Americans face.

Movie criticism is very subjective and everyone has the right to voice their opinion. You go to a movie and decide whether you like it or not.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it. Some people, like some of the women I know, have a black belt in spending. They were born with that. But what they gave me was a black belt in chutzpah.

I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

In this movie, 'Jigarthanda,' audience can feel it as English movie because this BGM is totally different from Indian background score.

I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

If you find yourself considering a project that seems like a layup, then you're diluted, or that movie's probably not the right movie for you to be making.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

I would love to do a big movie - a 'Marvel' movie.

My favorite older movie of all-time is "Scarface." Al Pacino played that role so well. It's a longer movie, but I like it.

I was a teenager, and I went to see the Superman movie, and up to the point I walked into that movie, I was a kid with no direction and no real purpose and no strong parental figures, and kind of aimless. I walked out of that movie knowing that whatever my life was going to be from then on, it had to have something to do with Superman, because something touched me emotionally with Christopher Reeve's performance.

I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody's ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like 'Independence Day.'

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

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.

There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.

'Black Panther' has made me embrace my natural black hair. The representation of natural black hair in the film has made me reflect on myself.

We were such movie nerds - I hate to say this, but yeah, we would just listen to movie soundtracks growing up.

You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

When I signed my movie contract, I thought I could never even have an opinion on a movie. But now, I've realized I have a lot of opinions.

When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

As I took another breath, I saw the three stars again. They were not calling to me; they were letting me go, leaving me to the black universe I had wandered for so many lifetimes. I drifted into the black, and it got brighter and brighter. It wasn't black at all - it was blue. Warm, vibrant, brilliant blue...I floated into it with no fear at all.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

Then you have these people in the movie theaters that talk the whole time during the movie. You ever go with somebody like that to a movie but you don't realize until you get there that you're with somebody like that? Brand new movie. First day it's open. You're there together and the entire time they're sitting there: Where's she going? Why'd he do that? Is he mad at her? I don't know, let's watch and find out together shall we? You know who you are. You're denying it right now: I do not do that. Why is she saying that?. What's she gonna say next?

Yes, believe me I am black and blue. Plus I just finished a Seth MacFarlane movie called Ted and I can't believe the cast I got to work with there [Mila Kunis, Mark Wahlberg]. I feel like I am winning some kind of contest to trick people into working with me.

Any movie I've done, my character has had a secret. Whether it's in the movie or not, it is usually never and it's usually not something I tell anybody. It is for me.

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.