Quotes on Movies

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

Author: Bud Abbott

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

Author: Ben Affleck

Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

Author: Ben Affleck

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.

Author: Casey Affleck

In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

Author: Casey Affleck

Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

Author: Carlos Alazraqui

I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

Author: J Allard

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

Author: J Allard

It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

Author: Debbie Allen

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

Author: Pedro Almodovar

Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.

Author: Lauren Ambrose

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

Author: Alejandro Amenabar

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

Author: Jeff Ament

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

Author: Loni Anderson

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

Author: Keren Ann

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

We are the movies and the movies are us.

Author: David Ansen

I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient.

Author: Shiri Appleby

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

Author: Michael Apted

Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.

Author: Avi Arad

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

Author: Asia Argento

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

Author: Dario Argento

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

Author: Dario Argento

The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.

Author: Adam Arkin

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

Author: Darren Aronofsky

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

Author: Patricia Arquette

There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?

Author: Rosanna Arquette

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.

Author: Richard Attenborough

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

Author: Richard Attenborough

I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies.

Author: Bille August

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.

Author: Paul Auster

No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

Author: Frankie Avalon

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.

Author: Kevin Bacon

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

Author: Kevin Bacon

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

Author: Kevin Bacon

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

Author: Kevin Bacon

One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

Author: John Badham

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

Author: Bob Balaban

But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.

Author: Bob Balaban

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

Author: Christian Bale

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

Author: Christian Bale

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

Author: Afrika Bambaataa

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

Author: Antonio Banderas

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

Author: Christine Baranski

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Author: Joseph Barbera

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.

Author: Javier Bardem

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

Author: Javier Bardem

What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.

Author: Clive Barker

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

Author: Peter Bart

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

Author: Peter Bart

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

Author: Peter Bart

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

Author: Cecilia Bartoli

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

Author: Michael Bay

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Author: Warren Beatty

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

Author: Warren Beatty

When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.

Author: Warren Beatty

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.

Author: Warren Beatty

Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

Author: Monica Bellucci

Movies are movies, television is television.

Author: Dirk Benedict

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

Author: Annette Bening

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

Author: Robert Benton

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.

Author: Bruce Beresford

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.

Author: Bruce Beresford

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

Author: Bruce Beresford

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

Author: Elmer Bernstein

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Author: Halle Berry

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

Author: Halle Berry

I like high impact movies.

Author: Kathryn Bigelow

But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.

Author: Jason Biggs

We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well.

Author: Jason Biggs

If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

Author: Brad Bird

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

Author: Brad Bird

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

Author: Brad Bird

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

Author: Bjork

Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.

Author: Nina Blackwood

I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies.

Author: William Blatty

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

Author: Alexis Bledel

I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Author: Orlando Bloom

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

Author: Orlando Bloom

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

Author: Emily Blunt

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.

Author: Peter Bogdanovich

We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own.

Author: Uwe Boll

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.

Author: Uwe Boll

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

Author: Uwe Boll

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.

Author: Joseph Bologna

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.

Author: Michael Bolton

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

Author: Jan Bont

I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.

Author: Jan Bont

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

Author: Jan Bont

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

Author: Pat Boone

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

Author: Stan Brakhage

Movies are like magic tricks.

Author: Jeff Bridges

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

Author: Poppy Brite

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

Author: Morgan Brittany

I feel bad about a lot of the movies I see that teach kids that if they do bad, they'll win.

Author: Morgan Brittany

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

Author: Morgan Brittany

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

Author: Pierce Brosnan

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

Author: James Broughton

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

I only make movies I want to go see.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

I make movies based on gut.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities.

Author: Chris Burke

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

Author: Delta Burke

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

Author: Carol Burnett

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

Author: Ken Burns

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Author: Tim Burton

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.

Author: Tim Burton

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

Author: Steve Buscemi

I loved "Clueless." That was one of my favorite movies of all time.

Author: Amanda Bynes

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

Author: Gabriel Byrne

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

Author: Dean Cain

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

Author: Michael Caine

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

Author: Claudia Cardinale

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

Author: Kitty Carlisle

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

Author: Kitty Carlisle

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

Author: Kitty Carlisle

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

Author: Margaret Carlson

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

Author: David Carradine

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

Author: Angela Carter

It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate.

Author: David Caruso

I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.

Author: Dana Carvey

I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.

Author: Jackie Chan

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

Author: Geraldine Chaplin

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

Author: Chevy Chase

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

Author: Chevy Chase

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

Author: Joan Chen

I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.

Author: Morris Chestnut

You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.

Author: Morris Chestnut

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

Author: Thomas Church

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Author: Jill Clayburgh

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.

Author: George Clooney

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.

Author: Joel Coen

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

Author: Joel Coen

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

Author: Mindy Cohn

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

Author: Nat Cole

When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.

Author: Dabney Coleman

And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.

Author: Jim Coleman

I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there.

Author: Robbie Coltrane

Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.

Author: Bill Condon

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

Author: Bill Condon