300 Quotes on Movies

• I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

  Author: Edward Zwick

• People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

  Author: Daphne Zuniga

• Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!

  Author: David Zucker

• I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one.

  Author: David Zucker

• I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

  Author: David Zucker

• I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

  Author: David Zucker

• The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

  Author: Sarah Zettel

• And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

  Author: Ahmet Zappa

• You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

  Author: Sean Young

• All I do is go to the movies.

  Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel

• And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

  Author: Jeffrey Wright

• Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

  Author: Jeffrey Wright

• The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

  Author: Jeffrey Wright

• Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

  Author: Alfre Woodard

• I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

  Author: Ed Wood

• The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.

  Author: John Woo

• I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

  Author: Scott Wolf

• It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

  Author: Shelley Winters

• The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

  Author: Alex Winter

• The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

  Author: Alex Winter

• The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

  Author: Alex Winter

• They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

  Author: Alex Winter

• Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

  Author: Alex Winter

• I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

  Author: Alex Winter

• I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

  Author: Alex Winter

• I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

  Author: Alex Winter

• I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

  Author: Alex Winter

• Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

  Author: Owen Wilson

• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

  Author: Walter Williams

• I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

  Author: Serena Williams

• 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.

  Author: Esther Williams

• I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.

  Author: Esther Williams

• It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

  Author: Fred Willard

• Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  Author: Forest Whitaker

• I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

  Author: Joss Whedon

• I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

  Author: Adam West

• For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

  Author: Wim Wenders

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

  Author: Wim Wenders

• I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

  Author: Keenen Wayans

• You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• Growing up I didn't watch movies.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

  Author: Ray Walston

• I don't see all the movies that come out.

  Author: Ray Walston

• I've been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left.

  Author: Marc Wallice

• My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.

  Author: Eli Wallach

• I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

  Author: Mark Wahlberg

• I'm a fan of good horror movies.

  Author: Donnie Wahlberg

• I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

  Author: Robert Wagner

• When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

  Author: Robert Wagner

• If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.

  Author: Larry Wachowski

• We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.

  Author: Andy Wachowski

• I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

  Author: Bruce Vilanch

• I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

  Author: Alexa Vega

• I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

  Author: Bill Vaughan

• I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

  Author: Michael Vartan

• I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

  Author: Jack Vance

• It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

  Author: Kathy Valentine

• If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

  Author: Jack Valenti

• It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

  Author: Tracey Ullman

• I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

  Author: Aisha Tyler

• I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

  Author: Tina Turner

• Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

  Author: Tina Turner

• After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

  Author: Robin Tunney

• Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.

  Author: Robin Tunney

• I never go overbudget on my movies.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

  Author: Stanley Tucci

• For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

  Author: Rachel True

• No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

  Author: Jean-Louis Trintignant

• I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

  Author: Obie Trice

• I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.

  Author: Guillermo Toro

• I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

  Author: Guillermo Toro

• For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

  Author: Guillermo Toro

• Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

  Author: Mel Torme

• I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

  Author: Peter Tork

• I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

  Author: Billy Thornton

• On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  Author: J. Thompson

• Movies make you immortal and ageless.

  Author: Kristin Thomas

• I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

  Author: Julie Taymor

• To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

  Author: George Takei

• In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

  Author: Max Sydow

• Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too.

  Author: Max Sydow

• When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

  Author: Ethan Suplee

• You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

  Author: Rider Strong

• The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.

  Author: Peter Stormare

• I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

  Author: Sharon Stone

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

  Author: Oliver Stone

• Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

  Author: Oliver Stone

• There's an electrical thing about movies.

  Author: Oliver Stone

• I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

  Author: Oliver Stone

• One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

  Author: Oliver Stone

• I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!

  Author: Emma Stone

• I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

  Author: Eric Stoltz

• On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

  Author: Michael Stipe

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

  Author: Sting

• I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

  Author: Kristen Stewart

• Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

  Author: Kristen Stewart

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

  Author: Jon Stewart

• Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

  Author: James Stewart

• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  Author: Fisher Stevens

• The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

  Author: Jason Statham

• Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

  Author: Jason Statham

• The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

  Author: Jason Statham

• A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

  Author: Jason Statham

• And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

  Author: Jason Statham

• At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

  Author: Terence Stamp

• It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

  Author: Terence Stamp

• I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

  Author: Sylvester Stallone

• Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

  Author: Nick Stahl

• But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.

  Author: Scott Speedman

• Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

  Author: Scott Speedman

• You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

  Author: Bubba Sparxxx

• I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

  Author: James Spader

• Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

  Author: Kevin Spacey

• You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

  Author: Sissy Spacek

• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  Author: Barry Sonnenfeld

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

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.

  Author: Stephen Sommers

• I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.

  Author: Steven Soderbergh

• I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

  Author: Leelee Sobieski

• 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.

  Author: Will Smith

• I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

  Author: Mel Smith

• When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.

  Author: Alexis Smith

• Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

  Author: Tom Sizemore

• I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

  Author: Gene Siskel

• That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

  Author: Gene Siskel

• And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

  Author: Douglas Sirk

• I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

  Author: John Singleton

• In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

  Author: Joe Simon

• Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

  Author: Dan Simmons

• One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.

  Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

• There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

  Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

• I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!

  Author: George Sidney

• Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

  Author: M. Shyamalan

• In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.

  Author: Joe Shuster

• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  Author: Fiona Shaw

• I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

  Author: Omar Sharif

• Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

  Author: Brian Setzer

• Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  Author: Yahoo Serious

• I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.

  Author: Tom Selleck

• I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.

  Author: Jason Segel

• Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

  Author: Kyra Sedgwick

• Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.

  Author: Kyra Sedgwick

• You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

  Author: Amy Sedaris

• Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.

  Author: Tony Scott

• All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.

  Author: Tony Scott

• And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

  Author: Ridley Scott

• You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• I know it's good when I see a smaller film get recognized because it means more publicity for them. When you start producing and directing the movies become a little more like your children.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• The fact is, it's hard to release movies.

  Author: Campbell Scott

• One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

  Author: Barbet Schroeder

• I manage to hide in my movies.

  Author: Liev Schreiber

• The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

  Author: Mary Schmich

• You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

  Author: Mary Schmich

• I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.

  Author: Claudia Schiffer

• He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.

  Author: Richard Schickel

• You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me?

  Author: Roy Scheider

• I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'

  Author: John Sayles

• I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

  Author: John Sayles

• I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

  Author: John Sayles

• There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.

  Author: John Sayles

• I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

  Author: Fred Savage

• I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

  Author: J. Salinger

• 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.

  Author: Zoe Saldana

• I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

  Author: Mark Rydell

• And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

  Author: Meg Ryan

• Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

  Author: Richard Russo

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

  Author: Kurt Russell

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

  Author: Kurt Russell

• I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

  Author: Alan Rudolph

• I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

  Author: Gena Rowlands

• Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

  Author: Mickey Rourke

• It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

  Author: Mickey Rourke

• I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

  Author: Portia Rossi

• I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

  Author: Marion Ross

• The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

  Author: George Romero

• George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

  Author: Cesar Romero

• So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

  Author: Henry Rollins

• There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

  Author: Will Rogers

• The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

  Author: Will Rogers

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  Author: Wayne Rogers

• I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

  Author: Joe Rogan

• Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

  Author: Nicolas Roeg

• Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

  Author: Nicolas Roeg

• Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

  Author: Robert Rodriguez

• I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

  Author: Michelle Rodriguez

• I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.

  Author: Michelle Rodriguez

• The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.

  Author: Michelle Rodriguez

• I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.

  Author: Jill Robinson

• At that time, people wanted to be frightened. The Thing had come out, The Day the Earth Stood Still had come out, and these were all frightening movies.

  Author: Ann Robinson

• I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

  Author: Julia Roberts

• 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.

  Author: Julia Roberts

• I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

  Author: Guy Ritchie

• You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.

  Author: Molly Ringwald

• Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

  Author: Debbie Reynolds

• I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

  Author: Debbie Reynolds

• My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

  Author: Burt Reynolds

• Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

  Author: Alain Resnais

• I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

  Author: Lee Remick

• I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.

  Author: Ivan Reitman

• My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

  Author: Ivan Reitman

• Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

  Author: Ivan Reitman

• I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.

  Author: Karel Reisz

• It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else.

  Author: Paul Reiser

• I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

  Author: Gabrielle Reece

• I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.

  Author: Lynn Redgrave

• The movies were custard compared to politics.

  Author: Nancy Reagan

• Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.

  Author: Nancy Reagan

• As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

  Author: Harold Ramis

• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

  Author: Sam Raimi

• Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.

  Author: Aishwarya Rai

• Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen.

  Author: Trevor Rabin

• You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.

  Author: Trevor Rabin

• Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.

  Author: Trevor Rabin

• When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.

  Author: Glenn Quinn

• I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

  Author: Dennis Quaid

• Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

  Author: Dennis Quaid

• Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

  Author: Richard Pryor

• Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

  Author: Richard Pryor

• I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

  Author: David Prowse

• I didn't see a ton of movies growing up.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• Those movies sure got me into a rut.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• Too much TV hurts movies.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

  Author: Elvis Presley

• I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

  Author: Laura Prepon

• I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

  Author: Victoria Pratt

• I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

  Author: Victoria Pratt

• I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

  Author: Jane Powell

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

  Author: Natalie Portman

• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

• I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

  Author: Sydney Pollack

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

  Author: Sydney Pollack

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