Top 997 Movies Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I played at being someone else in movies and live theater, and at being myself in life's most intense, fascinating game - the game of love.

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.

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

'Oppam' is more of a director's movie, especially because I play a visually-challenged hero in it. The character doesn't have a perspective, and so cameras aren't placed like how they are usually done in other movies. The angles and the way the scenes are captured are different.

I like Telugu movies, then comes Bollywood and then English movies. In Tollywood, I like Mahesh Babu and Prabhas. But no, I don't watch all their movies. I first find out if the movie is nice. If it's a flop, I don't watch it.

My favorite movies are 'The Notebook,' 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,' and 'Wolf Children.'

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

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.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

I'll go to the movies and hear 'Angel From Montgomery' in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don't tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don't have to, so they don't tell you. You get paid eventually.

I make movies I want to see.

When I first came to Hollywood to make 'Mortal Kombat' back in the day, there was this rule that female-led action movies don't work and American studios didn't want to make them.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

If you ask me whether I can direct, I can. In fact, I have shot several songs, scenes and stunts. When certain directors of my movies were not able to be there for some reason and had asked me to help out, I have directed. But to helm an entire movie is a different art altogether.

Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

There's more to life than movies.

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

After 'Yevade Subramanyam', I figured out that I want to make movies that would have a lifespan and be useful in some way.

Stand-up keeps you on your toes because it's instant. With TV and movies, you have to wait for the numbers to come in to see what happened at the box office. With stand-up, it's right there, that night, in your face.

No one goes to Pakistan to make movies. You stick out.

I'll take photographs with kids. People who want to take photographs with me. People who like the movies. People who supported me. I'll do that all day, all night, that's fine. But the bombardment of the paparazzi is just... I truly don't understand. It just feels like this kind of gluttonous, horrific sport. It's like sport.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Making movies is great. It was like love at first sight; a whole new, different business. I can see why actors love it so much.

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.

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

A lot of the album 'The Definition' was made from two things: Pixar movies and J. Dilla.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.

The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers. My father lost his job. My mother drank. They fought. The movies were my escape.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

'Jolly LLB' is one of my favorite movies. Courtroom films are rare to come by in Telugu.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

I drove from Naples to the Amalfi coast in an Alpha Romeo 1969 Spider, which was lovely. There have been lots of movies made down there, and I felt a bit like James Bond - the driving is quite hairy. The locals have mopeds, but you wouldn't catch me on a bike on those roads. A tank would be safer!

There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.

I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.

I have a shot a lot of movies in Dubai.

Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I've watched them since I was very young, and I've been greatly shaped by them.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

If beautiful movies can influence you to go out and hug your children, then we have to be honest and say that other movies can inspire you to do bad things.