Top 997 Movies Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world.

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.

'Logan Lucky' is an experiment. The problem that I think needs to be addressed is, what has happened to movies for grown-ups made by people who are still interested in the idea of cinema?

In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

Brad Pitt has something about him to where he's played different characters in all his movies, and every single time after he's done, I want to be him.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.

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.

There's very few dork movies made by dorks.

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

I enjoy being in movies, but my heart will always lie with the theatre.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I loved acting, and then acting led to writing, and writing led to directing, and directing lead to five movies, and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

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.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

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.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

Cinema is not about format, and it's not about venue. Cinema is an approach. Cinema is a state of mind on the part of the filmmaker. I've seen commercials that have cinema in them, and I've seen Oscar-winning movies that don't. I'm fine with this.

I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

I am a complete movie buff who still prefers to go for the late night show and seldom watch movies at home.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

I like movies too much. I watch all kinds of films. In a way, all filmmakers are basically audience.

In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.

I was always working. Maybe you weren't aware of the movies I was making, or the television I was doing, or the shows I was creating, or the books I was writing; there have been thirty. But I have always been solidly at work, running as fast as I can.

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

I remember watching 'Avengers 1' for the first time and thinking, 'God, one day I want to be in one of those movies.' I just want to be in the movie.

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

Before getting into movies, I decided to get modeling or acting assignments in Delhi.

Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.

I eat, sleep, and breathe movies. Though I didn't understand the seriousness of films when I made my debut, I felt on top of the world.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch games in the Premier League and will also watch movies a lot as well. That is how I relax.

I wanted to be a filmmaker, so my parents helped me by encouraging me to save my allowance. So I bought my first video camera, and I would make movies, but I never made a movie that I finished until I was in college. There was no expectation, but I would make movies every day.

I've played a lot of bad guys in my time, especially in movies. It's delightful playing the villain. It's almost the most interesting and most complicated role in a film.

Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Real life is never black and white why must the movies be?

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.

Where do I begin with 'The Godfather?' It's like explaining why the 'Bible' is so popular. I'll always remember seeing the first one because it was the only time I went to the movies with my grandfather.

Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.