Top 997 Movies Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

I started taking acting classes when I was 14. That's when I knew I wanted to try it professionally. Before that, I watched movies, always, but I didn't think it was a real job. I watched Turner Classic Movies with my parents. I've always loved the old classics.

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.'

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.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

I like movies that project a dilemma of modern men and women who are overwhelmed by the system.

My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many horror movies and thrillers.

I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours.

I was scared of everything growing up. I still don't like scary movies.

This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.

I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble.

You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.

'Four Weddings and a Funeral' is one of my favorite movies, and I laugh all the time, and I cry during the one funeral. But I'll say that 'Monsters, Inc.' is a movie that really gets me super-emotional. Especially the ending.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

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.

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

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.

I feel like every night, when you see a really good production of 'Romeo and Juliet' or something, you should hope that it ends differently. That's why we watch our favorite movies again and again.

You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it.

My label is to play bad guys of Latin origin in American movies. I'm happy with that label. I prefer to play that than to play a city boy. The bad guy is always something very tempting for the audience.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

I always say I make the movies where people go, 'Hey, I never saw it, but when I finally did, I really liked it.' People saw 'Baby Driver,' though. I was pleased with that.

I really don't go out. I love watching movies, and on a day off, I'll work out, do groceries, do laundry, see a friend.

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil's workshop. I like to focus on something.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Movies are like magic tricks.

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.

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.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

'Kill Bill' is one of my favorite movies of all time.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

There's a constant level of risk in farming that so few movies let you feel. I wanted to show some of that, but also, by contrast, reflect on how nature so often offers grace.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

Whenever I have free time, I usually just sleep, play games, watch movies, see my friends, have a drink. Basically, I do whatever other people do in everyday life.

Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being 'Get Out,' is about race and neglect and marginalization.

I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.

I'm afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one's experiences with movies, art galleries, novels, music - that is, characterized by mild amusement but with an overall feeling of stupidity and shame. Better to cook for yourself.

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

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.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for when he plays a superhero, because the real Will Smith can't fly. He can only hover.