| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Alfred Hitchcock | A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. | 101 |
| Eazy-E | I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that. | 101 |
| Federico Fellini | Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me. | 101 |
| Forest Whitaker | 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. | 101 |
| Harbhajan Singh | Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me. | 101 |
| Helen Mirren | It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way. | 101 |
| Ian McLagan | My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years. | 101 |
| Ira Sachs | Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member. | 101 |
| Kathryn Bigelow | If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. | 101 |
| Larry the Cable Guy | I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.' | 101 |
| Monica Bellucci | We all need illusions. That's why we love movies. | 101 |
| Oliver Stone | There's an electrical thing about movies. | 101 |
| Russell Peters | I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them. I don't like all the singing, dancing and all the dramatic crying. I have never seen a Bollywood film in my life. | 101 |
| Sebastian Thrun | The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today? | 101 |
| Stanley Kubrick | A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. | 101 |
| Violante Placido | I've done movies that were maybe not worth it, but I try to take the best from every experience. You learn more from bad experiences sometimes. It gives you more will to overcome your mistakes. They give you determination. | 101 |
| Vir Das | I wouldn't call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy saves my life every day. | 101 |
| Virginie LeDoyen | Well, it gives me the opportunity to make the movies that I want to do, because L'Oreal pays me very well. Also it means that I can work with great directors. My last commercial was directed by Erick Zonca, who made 'Dream Life of Angels.' And finally, it doesn't take up a lot of my time. | 101 |
| Wes Anderson | I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier. | 101 |
| Alfonso Cuaron | 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R. | 101 |
| Ansel Elgort | So many movies just have two pretty people thrown together. | 101 |
| Bill Skarsgard | In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that. | 101 |
| Casey Wilson | Frankly, 'Bride Wars' got made because movies with women need to be about weddings and love. | 101 |
| Christina Ricci | My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic. | 101 |
| Dean Koontz | Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. | 101 |
| Drew Goddard | I think so much of the horror film is about our primal instincts, and our primal instincts are not just towards violence. It's also towards sex. I feel like horror movies, as much as they're about violence, they're also about sex. It's about our instincts, so in that regard, it's crucial that you honor both of those things. | 101 |
| Eli Wallach | 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. | 101 |
| Emraan Hashmi | The 'serial kisser' tag that has been thrust on to me is a lame stereotype. It irritates me. Yes, there is sexual content in my movies, and I have never been apologetic about doing bold scenes. But it's not fair to tag me this way because that can be very stifling. | 101 |
| Gore Verbinski | I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic. | 101 |
| Ivana Milicevic | 'The Princess Bride' is one of my favorite movies of all time. | 101 |
| James Cameron | Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. | 101 |
| James Wan | For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work. | 101 |
| John C. Reilly | I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us. | 101 |
| Jonah Hill | I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid; freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy. | 101 |
| Kris Kristofferson | I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film. | 101 |
| Nicholas Jarecki | Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.' | 101 |
| Richard King | Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. | 101 |
| Sherry Turkle | It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy. | 101 |
| Sydney Pollack | Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies. | 101 |
| Steve Erickson | Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them. | 101 |
| Thomas Bangalter | Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion. | 101 |
| Warwick Davis | There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside. | 101 |
| William Forsythe | I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time. | 101 |
| Aaron Lazar | I went to the opening of 'Sister Act,' and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining. | 101 |
| Aasif Mandvi | I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast. | 101 |
| Alana Stewart | All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person. | 101 |
| Arjun Rampal | Who doesn't know about Bollywood? After all, we churn out movies in such great quantities every year! People across the globe know Shekhar Kapur. | 101 |
| Brian Grazer | Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time. | 101 |
| Ciaran Hinds | It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made. | 101 |
| Damon Lindelof | I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies. | 101 |
| Edward Witten | I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week. | 101 |
| Jason Blum | There are a lot of parallels between doing a sequel and doing low budget movies, which is they give creative parameters. As a creative person myself, I work better with parameters as opposed to anything goes. | 101 |
| Jim Parsons | My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it's obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn't always happen when you're doing theater or movies. | 101 |
| Ken Marino | I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters in them. They're not just slasher movies with people going to kill people in people's houses. Although I do like 'The Last House on the Left,' and things like that, I do like these ridiculous monster movies. | 101 |
| Lauren Ambrose | 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. | 101 |
| Lawrence Kasdan | The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know. | 101 |
| Robert MacNeil | The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons. | 101 |
| Stephen Chbosky | When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me. | 101 |
| Agnes Bruckner | For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into. | 101 |
| Andrew Lau | I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States. | 101 |
| Bob Balaban | 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. | 101 |
| Clark Gregg | New York is the perfect place for a film festival because there's already so much energy and life here, and New Yorkers love movies. | 101 |
| David Chase | I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies. | 101 |
| Denise Di Novi | I find 'Edward Scissorhands' a very inspiring movie - it's one of the first movies about bullying, in a way - about being treated unkindly for being different. | 101 |
| Dino De Laurentiis | After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. | 101 |
| Elmer Bernstein | I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies. | 101 |
| Kevin Zegers | I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here. Someone like Ryan Gosling shouldn't have to come back here because it's a Canadian movie. He should want to come back because some of the best movies are being made here. | 101 |
| Michel Hazanavicius | I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling. | 101 |
| Paula Malcomson | I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore. | 101 |
| Pete Cashmore | I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate. | 101 |
| Petra Haden | Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me. | 101 |
| Piper Laurie | And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after. | 101 |
| Rian Johnson | I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things. | 101 |
| Richard O'Brien | We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television. | 101 |
| Sam Raimi | I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject. | 101 |
| Steve Guttenberg | I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars. | 101 |
| George Sidney | 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! | 101 |
| Gina Philips | All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie. | 101 |
| King Hu | 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. | 101 |
| Larry Cohen | Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts. | 101 |
| Len Wiseman | I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked. | 101 |
| Roman Polanski | Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. | 101 |
| Stephen Gaghan | More attention and thought goes into naming a character in 'Call Of Duty' than all the work that can go into certain movies. Blood and sweat and tears go into figuring out the names because they are so important. The call signs say a lot about you. The brotherhood that's evoked by the name is quite profound. | 101 |
| Benh Zeitlin | Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go. | 101 |
| Burt Reynolds | My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. | 101 |
| Charlotte Ronson | I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week. | 101 |
| Craig Brewer | And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it. | 101 |
| John Singleton | 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. | 101 |
| Mark Pellegrino | I do like the zombie movies quite a bit. I know there are purist zombie guys that don't like the running zombies, but I dig the infected thing. I think that's a scarier incorporation of an element into the genre. | 101 |
| Miles Teller | I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music. | 101 |
| Sam Huntington | There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film. | 101 |
| Caroline Goodall | I have a real problem with watching movies where I see this perfect woman who is married to the man in question, who has a perfect life, who has perfect hair, perfect clothes, and doesn't give you any of the kind of reality that you're used to. | 101 |
| Jane Greer | I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track. | 101 |
| Madeline Zima | I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing. | 101 |
| Robert Altman | Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes. | 101 |
| Sam Peckinpah | The end of a picture is always an end of a life. | 101 |
| Sterling Knight | I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, so it's always nice to watch movies that make you think that love at first sight is actually possible. | 101 |
| A. J. Bowen | I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial hair. I had put on all this weight for these movies, and I did four or five of them back-to-back. Then I cut the weight and I got fit again. I cut my beard and I took away the mustache, and people were like, 'What are you doing?' | 101 |
| David Ansen | We are the movies and the movies are us. | 101 |
| David Call | Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience. | 101 |
| Jason Patric | Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred. | 101 |
| Matthew Stafford | I really like 'Gladiator.' I like 'The Dark Knight.' I really liked, when I was a kid, 'U.S. Marshalls.' I like funny movies, too. 'Old School' and 'The Hangover.' 'The Hangover' was up there; I liked it. | 101 |
| Alan Mak | I like shooting movies in Thailand very much because the government is so cooperative there. The police help you to close the roads for shooting. | 101 |
| Jill Clayburgh | What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older. | 101 |
| John Landis | I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.' | 101 |
| Jaden Smith | I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep. | 101 |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't. | 101 |
| Jordan Ladd | All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it. | 101 |
| Tim Burton | Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me. | 102 |
| Casey Neistat | I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have any friends, so I would just sit at home all night editing on my iMac. | 102 |
| Forest Whitaker | 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. | 102 |
| Gene Kelly | When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman. | 102 |
| Harvey Weinstein | Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what. | 102 |
| Kirk Douglas | People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed. | 102 |
| Lloyd Kaufman | The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world. | 102 |
| Nancy Reagan | The movies were custard compared to politics. | 102 |
| Oskar Werner | I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. | 102 |
| Pedro Almodovar | I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion. | 102 |
| Peter Jackson | The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. | 102 |
| 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. | 102 |
| Valerie Azlynn | I love the Warner Brothers lot. There is so much history there. They've done such a smart thing. They have signs outside of each stage which tell you what movies and TV shows were shot inside. So cool... you can almost feel the ghosts of actors past. | 102 |
| Yahoo Serious | Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. | 102 |
| Zoe Kazan | I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well. | 102 |
| Alan Arkin | I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials - they're not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States. | 102 |
| Brooke Elliott | I think a lot of times we're so told in our world that marriage is everything, and having a partner is everything. If you look at our movies and things, it's all directed around that love, and if you don't have that love, how sad you are. | 102 |
| Christopher Mintz-Plasse | I do love horror movies, but I'm not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group. | 102 |
| Cory Monteith | I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring. | 102 |
| Ernest Cline | I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies. | 102 |
| Frank Capra | I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. | 102 |
| Grace Kelly | I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face. | 102 |
| Gurinder Chadha | I went to L.A., and I was on two different studio movies at Fox and Sony, but they were never made in the end. When the second one wasn't happening, I ended up doing an episode of 'Who Do You Think You Are?' for the BBC, and went on a roots trip from England to Kenya, India, and pre-partition India in Pakistan, where my family originally came from. | 102 |
| Helen Hunt | The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. | 102 |
| Holly Hunter | I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features. | 102 |
| James Patterson | One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working. | 102 |
| Jean-Luc Godard | A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.  | 102 |
| Jon Favreau | I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope. | 102 |
| Katie Aselton | What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' was on TV, and they don't really make movies like that anymore, just simple and scary. The truly scary thing is, 'I'm going to threaten your life, I'm going to threaten the people you love. What are you going to do about it?' | 102 |
| Laura Kightlinger | I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it. | 102 |
| Neil Marshall | I don't really have a life outside of movies. But I like to climb mountains and walk the dogs. I like fine wines and good restaurants. | 102 |
| Nick Love | I've got a reputation for doing a certain type of film: lads' movies that glamorise violence. The more my reputation as a bad boy grows, the more my life moves away from that. | 102 |
| Peter Mullan | Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain. | 102 |
| Peter Landesman | Will Smith is the most successful money-making movie star on planet Earth, in terms of just how many people have gone to see his films, so Will is a guy who gets movies made. | 102 |
| Richard King | I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies. | 102 |
| Vanessa Brown | I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies. | 102 |
| Anna Chlumsky | I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year. | 102 |
| Anton Yelchin | I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind. | 102 |
| Boman Irani | Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened. | 102 |
| Brendan Gleeson | I worked with Steven Spielberg on 'AI,' and his level of preparation was extraordinary. He told me there was a time at the beginning when he was a bit more spontaneous and went over budget, and it absolutely wrecked his head. When you look at the power and assuredness of his movies, it makes sense that he works out so much in advance. | 102 |
| Carice van Houten | My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance. | 102 |
| D. W. Griffith | Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow. | 102 |
| David Gerrold | What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture. | 102 |
| Delta 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. | 102 |
| Ellen Datlow | Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear, comfort and horror, can be. They are objects of love and sources of reassurance for children, coveted prizes for collectors, sources of terror and horror in numerous movies, television shows, books, and stories. | 102 |
| Greil Marcus | I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the underdog' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.' | 102 |
| Jason Blum | The one thing I am very strict about is that I don't like spending a lot of money on movies because the more money you spend, I think the worse that they get. | 102 |
| Kenneth Lonergan | I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies. | 102 |
| Lawrence Kasdan | The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that. | 102 |
| Louis Leterrier | It's true, I'm the youngest, highest-grossing French director. I have a few records, but no one knows or simply doesn't care. That's good, because I like that. Ultimately, I want to keep working, making a lot of movies, and get better at it. It's about finding great scripts and bringing them to life. | 102 |
| Penn Badgley | I've always loved music. I listen to music the way a lot of actors watch movies. | 102 |
| Philip Kaufman | They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children. | 102 |
| Raekwon | Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on. | 102 |
| Richard D. Zanuck | I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend. | 102 |
| Shahid Kapoor | Indian cinema gives you everything that western cinema doesn't. It's maseladar and spicy. If you like Indian food, I think you'll love Indian movies. | 102 |
| Ty Simpkins | I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies. | 102 |
| William Wyler | I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse. | 102 |
| Willow Bay | New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage. | 102 |
| Amanda Donohoe | I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson. | 102 |
| Benjamin Percy | People like to pigeonhole. People like to label - not just books and movies, but everything in their life. If people want to call me 'literary horror,' I guess that's fine. What I'm trying to do is be both thrilling and thought-provoking. | 102 |
| Brian J. White | Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies. | 102 |
| Dennis Farina | When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything. | 102 |
| Dino De Laurentiis | If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it. | 102 |
| Elizabeth Gillies | Hopefully, after 'Victorious' has lived a long and beautiful life, I would like to go into movies. And I'd like to have a very successful movie career. Ultimately I'd love to win an Oscar; that's my big goal in life, so that's what I'm going for. | 102 |
| Emilie de Ravin | I'm kind of a homebody. I like to sit at home and watch movies and eat good food. | 102 |
| Ethan Coen | Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to. | 102 |
| Katie Chang | My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'. | 102 |
| Lorene Scafaria | For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore. | 102 |
| Mithun Chakraborty | I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels. | 102 |
| Peter Weller | The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know. | 102 |
| Rian Johnson | With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve. | 102 |
| Said Sayrafiezadeh | I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them. | 102 |
| Catherine Mary Stewart | Both TV and movies seem to be produced in a more similar way as time goes on. It used to be that movies were much bigger productions on every level and took much longer to shoot. I liked that. But with the advent of digital, everything can be done much quicker and cheaper, and that seems to be the goal of most movies and TV these days. | 102 |
| Joe Eszterhas | From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better. | 102 |
| John Carpenter | I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own. | 102 |
| Laura Ziskin | What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing. | 102 |
| Lee Marvin | I only make movies to finance my fishing. | 102 |
| Mojo Nixon | Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies. | 102 |
| Alex Newell | Other than my sexuality, I am vulnerable regarding my physical appearance, as I am not what people considered ideal by most standards. For the entertainment business, I am not the body type of what is typically cast for television or movies. | 102 |
| Ashley Bell | I always say horror films are great date movies. In the first twenty minutes, you're going to end up in each other's arms. | 102 |
| Chris Vance | I remember the first time Bill Fichtner and I had a scene together. I've seen him in a few movies, from 'Armageddon' to 'The Perfect Storm' and 'Contact,' and suddenly he's on a bunk bed and I'm on a bunk bed and we're doing this scene together. That was a real 'pinch me' moment. | 102 |
| Derek Theler | I'm a huge, huge comic book fan. I love the superhero movies so much. If I had to be one of the Avengers, I would go with Thor. I would have to. I just think I look the part too much, and I'm a fan of all of them, but Thor would be something that I think I could put on. I think I could make it happen. | 102 |
| Jason Mitchell | I already have two movies in the can, low-key, which are 'Vincent-N-Roxxy' and 'Keanu' with Key and Peele, which is my first comedy, and it's going to be super dope, definitely funny. They're so great, and they've been such life coaches to me. | 102 |
| Jennifer Armentrout | I have such a soft spot for the really cheesy zombie movies, but if I had to pick a really good one, I'd have to go with an actual TV show and say 'The Walking Dead'. | 102 |
| Mac Davis | I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat. | 102 |
| Matt Reeves | Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan. | 102 |
| John Logan | The reason that I'm a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That was through the movies, actually - through Olivier's 'Hamlet.' That was the first thing that got me to fall in love with Shakespeare and movies and everything in one big preadolescent rush. | 102 |
| Sabrina Carpenter | I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear. | 102 |
| Shu Qi | I need to make the characters that I play in movies more accessible to audiences, more real. As an actor, you're always passive; you're not making that many choices, so when something allows you to open up a bit, you want to explore your newfound freedom. | 102 |
| Arthur Penn | I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation. | 102 |
| James Roday | I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like 'An American Werewolf in London' in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway. | 102 |
| Mary Pickford | Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that. | 102 |
| Adam West | 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. | 102 |
| Jordi Molla | Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime. | 102 |
| Jacqueline MacInnes Wood | I'm a big horror fan, but I don't enjoy a lot of gore and watching somebody cut their leg off for five hours. I like the older movies where it draws you into the suspense, that sort of shock and awe. | 102 |
| Jason Dohring | It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.' | 102 |
| Jean-Luc Bilodeau | I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my buddies and having a good time. | 102 |
| J Allard | 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. | 102 |
| Alfred Hitchcock | The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. | 103 |
| Morgan Freeman | People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. | 103 |
| Carrie Underwood | I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies. | 103 |
| Eddie Murphy | I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax. | 103 |
| Eddie Redmayne | I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again. | 103 |
| Hans Zimmer | When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms. | 103 |
| Hayao Miyazaki | We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. | 103 |
| Hayley Mills | My father was an inspiration to me; I made a few movies with him and I loved working with him. Everything about him - his whole approach to work, as well as his love, enthusiasm and respect for it and other people in the business - was inspiring. I was very lucky to have him as a role model. | 103 |
| Imogen Poots | I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places. | 103 |
| James Dean | To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. | 103 |
| John Hughes | At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers! | 103 |
| Kevin Costner | I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. | 103 |
| 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. | 103 |
| Terry Gilliam | We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies. | 103 |
| Warren Spector | In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. | 103 |
| 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. | 103 |
| Zack Snyder | 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. | 103 |
| Alfonso Cuaron | It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments. | 103 |
| Bethany Mota | Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just basically do nothing. | 103 |
| Brian Cox | The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that. | 103 |
| David Sedaris | I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me. | 103 |
| Drew Goddard | With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. It's a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal. | 103 |
| Ethan Hawke | It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it. | 103 |
| Evan Peters | I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?' | 103 |
| Faye Dunaway | Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles. | 103 |
| Frank Darabont | One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to. | 103 |
| Hayden Panettiere | I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself. | 103 |
| Howard Stringer | For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy. | 103 |
| James Patterson | Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater? | 103 |
| James Wan | We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams. | 103 |
| Jean-Luc Godard | 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. | 103 |
| John C. Reilly | I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down. | 103 |
| Maurice Sendak | Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. | 103 |
| Scott Aukerman | I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did 'Reno 911!' for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the 'Star Trek' thing. | 103 |
| Tinashe | For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time! | 103 |
| Allison Anders | You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie. | 103 |
| Antoine Fuqua | Being a kid growing up with Kurosawa films and watching Sergio Leone movies just made me love what it could do to you, and how it could influence you - make you dream. | 103 |
| Brion James | I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that. | 103 |
| Christian Marclay | We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes. | 103 |
| Don Cheadle | I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now. | 103 |
| Emir Kusturica | The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films. | 103 |
| Eric Fellner | Making movies is like herding cats. | 103 |
| Grant Morrison | The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies. | 103 |
| Katharine Isabelle | My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood. | 103 |
| Louise Brooks | 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. | 103 |
| Michael Bay | 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. | 103 |
| Patsy Kensit | I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book. | 103 |
| Pauline Kael | Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher. | 103 |
| Pia Zadora | 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. | 103 |
| Richard D. Zanuck | Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry. | 103 |
| Sally Phillips | I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde. | 103 |
| Sam Mendes | I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. | 103 |
| Tika Sumpter | I think the best part in going to the movies is you feel something and you relate whether it's to family struggles or dimming your light for someone. I would say to never dim your light and to really, truly follow your dreams. | 103 |
| Timothy Olyphant | I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.' | 103 |
| Caleb Deschanel | Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it. | 103 |
| Cameron Crowe | I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. | 103 |
| Chris Colfer | I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying. | 103 |
| Danielle Panabaker | I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. 'Bambi' gave me nightmares. | 103 |
| Denis Villeneuve | My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women. | 103 |
| Donal Logue | I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor. | 103 |
| Jeremy Renner | There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble. | 103 |
| Michel Hazanavicius | I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything. | 103 |
| Paul Schrader | The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you. | 103 |
| Sam Raimi | I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. | 103 |
| Sofia Coppola | A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor. | 103 |
| Tara Reid | I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get scared. | 103 |
| Daniella Alonso | I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in. | 103 |
| Darren Shan | Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money. | 103 |
| Michael Biehn | I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake. | 103 |
| Scott M. Gimple | It's gonna be weird how there are going to be new 'Star Wars' movies every year starting in 2015. I don't know what that's going to be like, having one every year. Maybe it'll be perfect. Maybe it'll be just the right amount of time to have something to look forward to. Maybe it'll be too many at once. | 103 |
| Shane Black | I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies ever made. | 103 |
| Stephen Chow | 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. | 103 |
| Sutton Foster | I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies. | 103 |
| James Garner | Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it. | 103 |
| Joseph Barbera | 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. | 103 |
| Colin O'Donoghue | I grew up watching movies and being amazed at the animatronics you'd see in stuff like 'The Dark Crystal,' and all those kinds of movies. So, I'm always enthralled with how they can make it all work, behind the scenes, with the visual effects. | 103 |
| Jacob Latimore | I don't really like to go out that much. But when I do, I go to the movies, just hang out with friends. I go on Skype and iChat and just chill. | 103 |
| Jase Robertson | I thought Clint Eastwood was cool in all the western movies, but I'm not gonna drive somewhere he's at and stand in line to see him. I told Missy, my wife, 'The only person I'd stand in line for is God Almighty. You made the universe? All right, I'll get in line!' | 103 |
| Jean Dujardin | 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. | 103 |
| Jerry Orbach | 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi. | 103 |
| Max Landis | Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think 'super' might have taken over. | 103 |
| Jean-Jacques Annaud | America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture. | 103 |
| Joe Shuster | 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. | 103 |
| John Leguizamo | I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time. | 103 |
| John Woo | 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. | 103 |
| Josh Keaton | I'm passionate about fantasy movies. I'm passionate about comic book movies. I'm passionate about superheroes. And movies about vengeance. And all of that - the stuff that I grew up reading. | 103 |
| John Huston | 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. | 103 |
| Jamie Chung | There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for it. | 103 |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. | 104 |
| Orson Welles | If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. | 104 |
| Donnie Yen | Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies. | 104 |
| Eazy-E | Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool. | 104 |
| Eli Roth | Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?' | 104 |
| Fede Alvarez | 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies. | 104 |
| Gia Coppola | I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went to theatre school. It's interesting to learn about the technical side of it, but I think it's more important to learn about writing and working with actors. | 104 |
| Hanna Rosin | The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death. | 104 |
| Irrfan Khan | I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be. | 104 |
| Irvin Kershner | I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality. | 104 |
| Isaiah Mustafa | People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out. | 104 |
| Jodie Foster | I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies. | 104 |
| Larry the Cable Guy | Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life. | 104 |
| Liam Neeson | Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift. | 104 |
| Meryl Streep | I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. | 104 |
| Oliver Stone | I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily. | 104 |
| Oscar Isaac | I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?' | 104 |
| Robert Gottlieb | What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal. | 104 |
| Roger Ebert | We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too. | 104 |
| Samuel L. Jackson | I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.' | 104 |
| Spike Lee | 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. | 104 |
| Vincent Cassel | Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything. | 104 |
| Zach Galifianakis | When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies. | 104 |
| Zoe Lister-Jones | In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl. | 104 |
| Abhishek Bachchan | If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well. | 104 |
| Amanda Bynes | I loved 'Clueless.' That was one of my favorite movies of all time. | 104 |
| Axl Rose | I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo. | 104 |
| Bernardo Bertolucci | I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed. | 104 |
| Chris Ware | I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times. | 104 |
| Howard Stringer | The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K. | 104 |
| Jet Li | Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong. | 104 |
| Karan Johar | My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan. | 104 |
| Kathryn Hahn | Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy. | 104 |
| Lucas Grabeel | I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies. | 104 |
| Mary Tyler Moore | I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person. | 104 |
| Nancy Meyers | Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them. | 104 |
| Alexa Vega | 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. | 104 |
| Antoine Fuqua | But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies. | 104 |
| Bruno Dumont | When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story. | 104 |
| Chris Carter | I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing. | 104 |
| Christina Milian | That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice. | 104 |
| DJ Qualls | That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job. | 104 |
| Eric Fellner | Somebody has to invest in creating the movies of the future. | 104 |
| Gemma Arterton | I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing. | 104 |
| John Travolta | I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do! | 104 |
| Maddie Ziegler | I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too. | 104 |
| Peter Weir | Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised. | 104 |
| Sam Mendes | The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. | 104 |
| Talulah Riley | I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list. | 104 |
| Terrence J | I love film and I love sitcoms, and I was one of those kids that would just go to the movies on the weekend and spend my whole weekend watching all of the movies. | 104 |
| Terri Windling | Filmmaking can be a fine art. | 104 |
| Alex Winter | I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it. | 104 |
| Melanie Lynskey | I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect. | 104 |
| Rian Johnson | Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life. | 104 |
| Seth Green | Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness. | 104 |
| 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. | 104 |
| Alexander Ludwig | I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people. | 104 |
| Dean Cain | 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. | 104 |
| Joe Dante | 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. | 104 |
| Tyler Hoechlin | I love going to movies by myself. | 104 |
| Angela Lansbury | I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many. | 104 |
| Jennifer Armintrout | Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there. | 104 |
| Manish Dayal | Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic. | 104 |
| Miles Teller | Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy. | 104 |
| Robert Richardson | During a movie, you lose all ability to focus on your own interests. Your life is in service. After that you just want to disappear, switch off the phone, and sleep and watch movies for a month. | 104 |
| Malcolm D. Lee | I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done. | 104 |
| Rainey Qualley | My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh. | 104 |
| Susan Hayward | I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman. | 104 |
| Megan Charpentier | I've only seen a couple horror movies in my lifetime. I don't like the ones that make you scream out in terror. | 104 |
| Ice Cube | I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.' | 105 |
| Stephen King | 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. | 105 |
| Alan Alda | The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping. | 105 |
| Bette Davis | The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies. | 105 |
| Bill Murray | I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. | 105 |
| Dylan O'Brien | I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I didn't have any friends yet. I would force my sister to make these movies with me - which became my YouTube channel. | 105 |
| Holly Black | Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research. | 105 |
| James Franco | There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot of skepticism, and they shouldn't do artwork or music. There are these invisible roadblocks to gain entree to these areas for actors, and you kind of have to crash through those invisible barriers. | 105 |
| Jodie Foster | As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress. | 105 |
| Kristen Wiig | I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies. | 105 |
| Marc Anthony | I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. | 105 |
| Nat King Cole | I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself. | 105 |
| Paul Feig | I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately. | 105 |
| Roger Ebert | Every great film should seem new every time you see it. | 105 |
| Sarah Silverman | I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies. | 105 |
| Seth Rogen | I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community. | 105 |
| Uta Hagen | I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't. | 105 |
| Vincente Minnelli | It's the story that counts. | 105 |
| Britt Robertson | 'Tomorrowland' is very much the dream role for me. I've always wanted to do a movie like this. Movies like this aren't made anymore, and it's so cool that I get to be a part of it. I get to do something new and crazy every day, and my character goes through so many different things. I get to do all of it. It's awesome. | 105 |
| Carla Gugino | I love doing serious movies for adults. | 105 |
| Chris Burke | 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. | 105 |
| Dennis Quaid | I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't. | 105 |
| Emma Roberts | I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies. | 105 |
| Fred Savage | I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era. | 105 |
| Giorgio Moroder | One of the most interesting things, at least for me, are the soundtracks for 'The Social Network' and 'Drive.' Basically, it's what I did in 'American Gigolo.' I could have done the music for those movies blindfolded. And one of them won an Oscar, and the other is this massive soundtrack. | 105 |
| Jonah Hill | All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know? | 105 |
| Kate Beckinsale | I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do. | 105 |
| Michael Keaton | Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that. | 105 |
| Mike Myers | I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV. | 105 |
| Penelope Spheeris | 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. | 105 |
| Peter Coyote | We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's. | 105 |
| Selma Blair | Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages. | 105 |
| Shailene Woodley | My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment. | 105 |
| Brett Ratner | Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. | 105 |
| Bud Abbott | It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television? | 105 |
| Corey Feldman | As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. | 105 |
| Edward Furlong | I look up to actors. I look up to Robert DeNiro, I look up to Johnny Depp, I look up to Al Pacino, I look up to run-of-the-mill really good actors. I love watching movies, and I love watching other actors and learning from them. | 105 |
| Emily Giffin | For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband. | 105 |
| Lasse Hallstrom | But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from. | 105 |
| Lucy Walker | I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place. | 105 |
| Miranda Cosgrove | I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.' | 105 |
| Nikki DeLoach | I've done a lot of bad TV and bad movies. I've also done some really great things. | 105 |
| Stephen Hunter | By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all. | 105 |
| Tracy Letts | In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list. | 105 |
| Andrew Stanton | Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2. | 105 |
| Caity Lotz | The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality. | 105 |
| Callan McAuliffe | I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act. | 105 |
| Malcolm Mclaren | I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming. | 105 |
| Michael Mandelbaum | The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted. | 105 |
| Sara Paxton | I guess I can't live without Netflix because I would have nothing to do. All I do is sit home and watch movies. | 105 |
| Tig Notaro | I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order). | 105 |
| Geraldine 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. | 105 |
| Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are. | 105 |
| Rebecca Mader | I'm such a fan girl when it comes to movies, TV and sci-fi, sometimes I can't believe I actually get to be in them. | 105 |
| Richard Schiff | I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy... I wanna scare people. | 105 |
| Sam Neill | I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. | 105 |
| Andrew Garfield | Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame. | 105 |
| Carly Chaikin | 'Mean Girls' is literally one of my favorite movies. It's just such a classic. Everybody has seen it, and me and my friends quote it all the time. | 105 |
| Robert Zemeckis | In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit. | 105 |
| Shelley Winters | 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. | 105 |
| James Maslow | Besides writing music and surfing, I like to simply chill with my friends. Watching movies and going out to eat are often my prime choices for a day off. | 105 |
| John Woo | To be honest, I don't have much time to watch any movies. | 105 |
| Adam Savage | Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate. | 106 |
| Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu | Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art. | 106 |
| Daniel Craig | Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them. | 106 |
| Eddie Murphy | I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. | 106 |
| Francois Truffaut | I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early. | 106 |
| Frank Miller | I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life. | 106 |
| George Lucas | If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office. | 106 |
| Gerard Butler | It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good. | 106 |
| Hailee Steinfeld | Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures. | 106 |
| Harvey Weinstein | When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath? | 106 |
| Isaac Hayes | I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies. | 106 |
| John Hughes | I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away. | 106 |
| Martin Scorsese | Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. | 106 |
| Michael Douglas | With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives. | 106 |
| Peter Jackson | 100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be? | 106 |
| Vincent Cassel | When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like. | 106 |
| Xavi | 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. | 106 |
| Becky G | If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food. | 106 |
| Bipasha Basu | As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame. | 106 |
| Colin Trevorrow | I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories. | 106 |
| David Rakoff | Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. | 106 |
| Emily Oster | Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments. | 106 |
| Eric Stoltz | But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head. | 106 |
| Giorgio Moroder | A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background. | 106 |
| Jane Fonda | I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him. | 106 |
| Jean-Luc Godard | Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. | 106 |
| Jon Favreau | People look at Marvel movies as epic in scope, but if you look back at the comics, you realise that Marvel heroes were often a reaction to the square-jawed DC characters like Superman, who were flawless and beyond reproach. | 106 |
| Kathryn Stockett | That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not. | 106 |
| Luanne Rice | Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family knows the power of stories, and they give us unforgettable movies with heart and depth and the resonance of classics. | 106 |
| Marlon Wayans | So, I was sitting there and I watched 'Paranormal Activity' and I was like, 'Boy, white people do dumb stuff in movies.' So I was like, 'Why don't they just leave the house... What if paranormal activity happened to a black couple?' | 106 |
| Richard Attenborough | There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay. | 106 |
| Rob Zombie | I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later. | 106 |
| Robert Englund | Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did 'Elm Street' - I'd probably be on a psychiatrist's couch saying: 'Freddy ruined me.' But I'd already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre. | 106 |
| Bruce Sterling | 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. | 106 |
| Emir Kusturica | Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. | 106 |
| Gabriel Mann | I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash. | 106 |
| Jason Reitman | I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs. | 106 |
| Kurt Sutter | Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion. | 106 |
| Lasse Hallstrom | I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting. | 106 |
| Lucy Liu | Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him. | 106 |
| Amber Riley | My friends tell me I'm the most boring celebrity they know! A typical night for me is at home in California or watching movies in my pyjamas. | 106 |
| Laurence Fishburne | I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine. | 106 |
| Maggie Gyllenhaal | I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made. | 106 |
| Mithun Chakraborty | My fan following is intact. They only like to see me in movies, which I am still doing for them. I do not need to do any long interviews or chat shows. | 106 |
| Sid Caesar | The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off. | 106 |
| John Carpenter | 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. | 106 |
| Judy Greer | I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies. | 106 |
| Sean Young | 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. | 106 |
| Mary Pickford | Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. | 106 |
| 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. | 107 |
| Christian Bale | I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable. | 107 |
| Demi Lovato | Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that. | 107 |
| Gerard Butler | I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there. | 107 |
| Jack White | I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm. | 107 |
| Katee Sackhoff | I hate horror movies, with a passion. | 107 |
| Michael Stipe | 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. | 107 |
| Rain | I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes. | 107 |
| Ralph Lauren | I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream. | 107 |
| Shia LaBeouf | I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies. | 107 |
| Vinnie Jones | For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies. | 107 |
| Wes Anderson | I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews. | 107 |
| Wim Wenders | Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it. | 107 |
| Zack Snyder | 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. | 107 |
| Abhishek Bachchan | Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets. | 107 |
| Amy Chua | In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children. | 107 |
| Chris Tucker | I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things. | 107 |
| David Fincher | There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch. | 107 |
| Eric Stoltz | I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real. | 107 |
| Grace Jones | I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent. | 107 |
| James McAvoy | At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas. | 107 |
| Jane Birkin | Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny. | 107 |
| Javier Bardem | Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art. | 107 |
| Lea Thompson | Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative. | 107 |
| Preity Zinta | Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things. | 107 |
| Stephen Lang | In the movies, I loved Errol Flynn whether he was playing a soldier or a pirate. I dug pirates. In fact, my first exposure to live performances was when my paternal grandfather took me to a D'Oyly Carte performance of 'The Pirates of Penzance' which impresario Sol Hurok imported from London. I loved every minute of it. | 107 |
| Sydney Pollack | When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. | 107 |
| Tony Kushner | As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice. | 107 |
| William Petersen | Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity. | 107 |
| Anton Yelchin | My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on. | 107 |
| Christina Milian | I would just love to do something where I'd have to train and work really hard and do one of those types of action movies, which a lot of women are doing now. | 107 |
| Charlie Hunnam | You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It's wonderful. What I've always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I'm just starting to get that, and it's really lovely. | 107 |
| Kip Thorne | I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep. | 107 |
| S. E. Hinton | Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies. | 107 |
| Steve Sabol | You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies. | 107 |
| 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. | 107 |
| Sam Raimi | I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another. | 107 |
| John Carpenter | When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally. | 107 |
| Judy Greer | It's bad enough when people are comparing your movie to just other random movies, but when you have another 'Carrie' to compare it to, it's rough. | 107 |
| Roland Emmerich | Nobody makes movies bad on purpose. | 107 |
| Bill Burr | I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle. | 108 |
| Feisal Abdul Rauf | In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World. | 108 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful. | 108 |
| Hailee Steinfeld | I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book. | 108 |
| Russell Crowe | My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch. | 108 |
| Ryan Gosling | I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. | 108 |
| Amy Adams | I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. | 108 |
| Annette Bening | Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul. | 108 |
| Ben Kingsley | Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic. | 108 |
| David Fincher | When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people. | 108 |
| Dennis Quaid | Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!' | 108 |
| Drew Goddard | My favorite movies are the ones that are different the second time, or where you're constantly discovering new things. It's not just genre movies, either, and it's not just about twists. I saw 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' four times in the theater before I realized it's a love story. I love that. | 108 |
| Jon Favreau | People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and there's bad little ones. The bad big ones have to make their money back, so they'll push them down your throat, but the little ones just disappear if they're bad. | 108 |
| Jonah Hill | Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept. | 108 |
| Mahesh Babu | When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally. | 108 |
| Patricia Highsmith | If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies. | 108 |
| Rebel Wilson | I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade. | 108 |
| Rob Reiner | I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.' | 108 |
| Shashi Tharoor | Foreigners have a complex set of associations in their minds when they think of America - from Iraq to 9/11, certainly, but also from Coke to jeans. It is entirely possible for people around the world to love American products, American books, American movies, American music, and dislike the policies of the government of America. | 108 |
| Taylor Lautner | I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her. | 108 |
| Tim Roth | You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin. | 108 |
| Brian De Palma | And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous. | 108 |
| Emir Kusturica | Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies. | 108 |
| Holland Roden | One of my favorite movies is 'Back to the Future'. | 108 |
| Lana Parrilla | I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it. | 108 |
| Michael Bay | I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime. | 108 |
| Michael Ian Black | Best strategy for a first date is to ask her questions. Just keeping asking her questions about herself. Her life, her job, her friends, her taste in movies and music and everything. People mostly just want to talk about themselves, so let her do that. | 108 |
| Adrian Grenier | Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did. | 108 |
| John Eldredge | Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable. | 108 |
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt | 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. | 108 |
| John Naisbitt | The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping. | 108 |
| Jonas Mekas | I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies. | 108 |
| Alfred Hitchcock | A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. | 109 |
| John Wayne | Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes. | 109 |
| Ben Affleck | I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies. | 109 |
| Benicio Del Toro | Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors. | 109 |
| Casey Neistat | I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money. | 109 |
| Danny DeVito | You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies. | 109 |
| Francois Truffaut | Film lovers are sick people. | 109 |
| Frank Miller | I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. | 109 |
| Gilbert Gottfried | I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley. | 109 |
| Kurt Russell | We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate. | 109 |
| Norman Reedus | Oh, I love horror movies, yeah. | 109 |
| Ryan Gosling | I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies. | 109 |
| Samuel L. Jackson | I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them. | 109 |
| Andy Dick | I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry. | 109 |
| Beverly Cleary | In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! | 109 |
| Chris Tucker | I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh. | 109 |
| Gabriel Byrne | I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth. | 109 |
| Guy Ritchie | What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction. | 109 |
| Richard King | Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses. | 109 |
| Roger Penrose | Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes. | 109 |
| Stephen Amell | I loved Superman growing up. I saw a couple of those movies in the theater, and I watched 'Superman II' 8000 times. | 109 |
| Tommy Wiseau | I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting. | 109 |
| Aubrey Plaza | When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne. | 109 |
| Bill Vaughan | 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. | 109 |
| Carter Burwell | John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then. | 109 |
| Glenn Frey | It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax. | 109 |
| Jesse Eisenberg | There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people. | 109 |
| Douglas Sirk | And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble. | 109 |
| Sanjay Dutt | None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward. | 109 |
| Aaron Tveit | I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over. | 109 |
| John Carpenter | I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out. | 109 |
| Roman Polanski | I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing. | 109 |
| Cliff Burton | As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.' | 109 |
| Josh Holloway | I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff. | 109 |
| Frank Ocean | Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time. | 110 |
| Anna Kendrick | I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films. | 110 |
| Betty Friedan | We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy! | 110 |
| Christopher Nolan | I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies. | 110 |
| Daniel Craig | Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not. | 110 |
| Jodie Foster | If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg. | 110 |
| Joyce Giraud | My husband and I are in preproduction of three movies, a Latin show, and a children's animation. I'm doing a very unique nail polish line, and finally, I'm developing a hair care line because people always ask me about my hair care system. I do a mask once a week that my grandma taught me how to make, so I want to share it with everyone. | 110 |
| Kirk Hammett | The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha! | 110 |
| Naomi Watts | 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. | 110 |
| Robert Gottlieb | 'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist. | 110 |
| Elizabeth Banks | Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, 'Yeah, 'Bridesmaids' opened the door to make more movies about women.' I mean, did it? I don't know; where are they? | 110 |
| Eva Longoria | On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me. | 110 |
| James 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. | 110 |
| Johnny Knoxville | I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies. | 110 |
| Mahendra Singh Dhoni | Movies are a big part of our Indian culture. | 110 |
| Matthew Fox | I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see. | 110 |
| Mike Myers | Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. | 110 |
| Ricky Schroder | I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed. | 110 |
| Sarah Brightman | I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre. | 110 |
| Sebastian Stan | Just to get a job is always really exciting to me. I do feel there's a lot left for me to learn about movies, the subtleties of acting. | 110 |
| Anton Yelchin | If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it. | 110 |
| Dhani Jones | Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things. | 110 |
| Manuel Puig | 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. | 110 |
| Michael Bay | There are many movies that have done it very badly. The studios have gone for quick profits and audiences are feeling angry. People aren't taking the time and spending the money to do it right. I am. | 110 |
| Stephenie Meyer | I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror. | 110 |
| Jami Gertz | Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies. | 110 |
| Alec Baldwin | There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time. | 111 |
| Matt Groening | There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well. | 111 |
| Quentin Tarantino | When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' | 111 |
| Samuel Goldwyn | A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. | 111 |
| Shia LaBeouf | I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns. | 111 |
| Warren Beatty | Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer. | 111 |
| Zach Braff | I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear. | 111 |
| Chris Tucker | Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me. | 111 |
| Dana Carvey | 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. | 111 |
| David Fincher | Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. | 111 |
| James Wan | As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen. | 111 |
| Sally Field | My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.' | 111 |
| Sean Penn | There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies. | 111 |
| Seann William Scott | I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies. | 111 |
| Teri Garr | Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see. | 111 |
| Laura Dern | 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time. | 111 |
| Cecil B. DeMille | Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. | 111 |
| Bill Burr | If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get the crap beat out of me in a movie, that's good for me; I'm good. | 112 |
| Billy Joel | The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent. | 112 |
| Casey Neistat | The idea that somebody would go to my YouTube channel and want to watch movies and then be subjected to some terrible car commercial - I don't like that. | 112 |
| Chevy Chase | I have three daughters. I wanted them to be raised where there are real seasons and where everyone their age wasn't trying to get into movies. | 112 |
| Jodie Foster | I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in. | 112 |
| Nathan Fillion | I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'. | 112 |
| Shirley Temple | Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child. | 112 |
| Stanley Kubrick | A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. | 112 |
| Sylvester Stallone | I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes. | 112 |
| Virginia Postrel | Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress. | 112 |
| Will Ferrell | I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore. | 112 |
| John Williams | I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood. | 112 |
| Lucy Hale | I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out. | 112 |
| Corey Feldman | I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline. | 112 |
| Ashley Benson | When I was little I used to dance and model and that was fun. But I was always the person that was goofing off and I would memorize every line in every movie that I saw. And at recess that's what I would do, I would talk to my friends and recite movies. | 112 |
| Joel Coen | 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. | 112 |
| Maggie Q | It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine. | 112 |
| Jeff Goldblum | I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative. | 112 |
| Jessica Alba | Movies are the shadiest business in the world. | 112 |
| Andy Warhol | 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. | 113 |
| Tim Burton | In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists. | 113 |
| Angela Carter | Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. | 113 |
| Billy Wilder | Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award. | 113 |
| Carol Burnett | My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen. | 113 |
| Donald Glover | I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever. | 113 |
| Eddie Murphy | There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it. | 113 |
| Jennifer Lawrence | I never think it's right to chew gum in front of other people, but a lot of times I'll come in for a meeting chewing gum and I'll forget I'm chewing it. Then you don't want to swallow it because it stays in your system for seven years or something, so I've asked to throw it away. I've started to wonder if that's why I didn't get certain movies. | 113 |
| Kareena Kapoor Khan | It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying. | 113 |
| Mark Wahlberg | In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself. | 113 |
| Nicolas Roeg | Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. | 113 |
| Quentin Tarantino | I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before. | 113 |
| Rachel McAdams | The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like. | 113 |
| Russell Crowe | I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin. | 113 |
| Seth MacFarlane | Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies. | 113 |
| Sebastian Junger | People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers' and 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Apocalypse Now.' But they're not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood's idea of war. | 113 |
| Amy Sedaris | 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. | 113 |
| Dominic Monaghan | I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two. | 113 |
| Jonah Hill | I love it, man; I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening. | 113 |
| Ralph Fiennes | So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort. | 113 |
| Robert Duvall | I like the good feeling movies. | 113 |
| Tippi Hedren | I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe. | 113 |
| David D. Burns | The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen. | 113 |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody. | 113 |
| Michael Bay | I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all. | 113 |
| Kid Cudi | The tour bus is always fun, and there's plenty of time to watch movies. Actually, Kanye introduced me to the movie 'Step Brothers.' We were sitting there, watching it and clowning around - it was so funny, man. | 114 |
| John Wayne | My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. | 114 |
| Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously. | 114 |
| Alejandro Jodorowsky | I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money. | 114 |
| Chevy Chase | I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good. | 114 |
| Eddie Murphy | I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful. | 114 |
| Hunter Hayes | I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.' | 114 |
| Jack Nicholson | I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being. | 114 |
| Kevin Bacon | I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books. | 114 |
| Liam Hemsworth | Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of. | 114 |
| Neil LaBute | I make movies I want to see. | 114 |
| Paul Walker | There's more to life than movies. | 114 |
| 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. | 114 |
| Tabatha Coffey | I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up. | 114 |
| Winona Ryder | 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. | 114 |
| Joss Whedon | Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will. | 114 |
| Mark Hamill | I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it. | 114 |
| Saina Nehwal | Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it. | 114 |
| Andy Garcia | You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies. | 114 |
| Aishwarya Rai Bachchan | 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. | 115 |
| Chris Evans | What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.' | 115 |
| Julia Roberts | Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating. | 115 |
| Kevin Bacon | If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave. | 115 |
| Lana Del Rey | I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me. | 115 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done. | 115 |
| Margot Robbie | When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure. | 115 |
| Natalie Wood | I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic. | 115 |
| River Phoenix | It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies. | 115 |
| Robert Redford | I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way. | 115 |
| Sydney Pollack | Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. | 115 |
| John Cusack | I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later. | 115 |
| Mary Schmich | The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. | 115 |
| Demetri Martin | I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that. | 116 |
| Dwayne Johnson | I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like. | 116 |
| Morgan Freeman | 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. | 116 |
| Ben Affleck | You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies. | 116 |
| Chevy Chase | It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it. | 116 |
| Chris Evans | It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet. | 116 |
| Chuck Norris | In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn't be able to watch this. But I don't play in movies like this. Due to that, I said, 'I won't be a part of that if the hardcore language is not erased.' | 116 |
| Conrad Hall | Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry. | 116 |
| Emma 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! | 116 |
| Harvey Weinstein | People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo. | 116 |
| Kristen Wiig | For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me. | 116 |
| Mel Brooks | A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. | 116 |
| Mel Gibson | I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create 'effortless' on screen. | 116 |
| Theophilus London | I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way. | 116 |
| Daniel H. Wilson | In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. | 116 |
| Ethan Hawke | I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R. | 116 |
| Joel Edgerton | I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around. | 116 |
| Stanislav Grof | I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. | 116 |
| Jennifer Morrison | I don't know if there is anyone who wouldn't want to play some kind of superhero. I don't know if the world is getting sick of superhero movies or not, but I think you will endlessly have actors who are intrigued by the idea of playing a superhero. | 116 |
| Steven Spielberg | The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time. | 117 |
| Ben Affleck | Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person. | 117 |
| Hayao Miyazaki | I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me. | 117 |
| Salman Khan | In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons. | 117 |
| Sylvester Stallone | Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event. | 117 |
| Tom Clancy | Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. | 117 |
| Trent Reznor | I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities. | 117 |
| Vir Das | In 'Delhi Belly,' I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look. | 117 |
| Diablo Cody | People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies. | 117 |
| Joss Whedon | The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead. | 117 |
| Brian De Palma | So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point. | 117 |
| Jesse Eisenberg | I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million. | 117 |
| Mary Schmich | You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. | 117 |
| Blake Lively | Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies. | 118 |
| Jeff Bridges | Movies are like magic tricks. | 118 |
| Kevin Smith | Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that. | 118 |
| Regina Brett | Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies. | 118 |
| Sarah Silverman | Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies. | 118 |
| David Fincher | For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid. | 118 |
| Javier Bardem | Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious. | 118 |
| Jonah Hill | Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture. | 118 |
| Mandy Moore | Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true. | 118 |
| Shailene Woodley | I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter. | 118 |
| 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. | 118 |
| John Cusack | Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful. | 118 |
| Dwayne Johnson | I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself. | 119 |
| Chuck Palahniuk | Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins. | 119 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. | 119 |
| J. D. Salinger | 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. | 119 |
| Jean-Claude Van Damme | Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what? | 119 |
| John Lasseter | We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films. | 119 |
| John Hughes | 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. | 119 |
| Kim Cattrall | 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. | 119 |
| Mindy Kaling | I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. | 119 |
| Robert De Niro | I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. | 119 |
| Samuel L. Jackson | Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed. | 119 |
| Sean Connery | I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies. | 119 |
| Shigeru Miyamoto | I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames. | 119 |
| Tom Hardy | 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. | 119 |
| Joss Whedon | I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations. | 119 |
| Jason Reitman | Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments. | 119 |
| Aziz Ansari | It's hard to really get that excited about movies. Think about it like this: how many good comedy movies come out a year? Maybe one or two? And then, in those movies, what are the chances that there's a character that I'm the best fit to play? It's really small! | 120 |
| Claire Danes | It's very difficult to judge yourself. Extreme self-doubt is only attractive when it's fictionalized. Which is why people love the movies. They are so reassuring. | 120 |
| Jean-Claude Van Damme | It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what? | 120 |
| Martin Scorsese | My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else. | 120 |
| Norman Reedus | I think violence has always been popular, way before movies started being made. | 120 |
| Samuel Goldwyn | Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. | 120 |
| Steven Seagal | One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice. | 120 |
| Tom Hanks | Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. | 120 |
| Dario Argento | If you don't like my movies, don't watch them. | 120 |
| Lucy Hale | I love movies like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Juno.' Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing. | 120 |
| Jason Reitman | As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write. | 120 |
| Joaquin Phoenix | You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose. | 120 |
| Walt Disney | Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. | 121 |
| Eric Schlosser | Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports. | 121 |
| Heath Ledger | When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see. | 121 |
| Mariah Carey | I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine. | 121 |
| Priyanka Chopra | I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time. | 121 |
| Salman Rushdie | If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow. | 121 |
| Alan Moore | It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise. | 121 |
| Cameron Diaz | I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time. | 121 |
| Shilpa Shetty | I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that, every time I leverage my name, I want people to feel sure that it's going to be something good - so whether it be my movies, my perfume, my restaurant, my musical, it'll be good work, good food and good everything. | 121 |
| Maggie Q | When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that. | 121 |
| John Milius | Everybody's a filmmaker today. | 121 |
| Drake | I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his. | 122 |
| Woody Allen | If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job. | 122 |
| Denzel Washington | It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at. | 122 |
| Elizabeth Taylor | Everything makes me nervous - except making films. | 122 |
| Emma Stone | My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings. | 122 |
| John Cena | 'Tropic Thunder' is one of my favorite movies of all time. 'Blazing Saddles.' Anything that will get me to smile. | 122 |
| Mr. T | God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete. | 122 |
| Nick Cave | 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. | 122 |
| Oliver Stone | I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations. | 122 |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting. | 122 |
| Ridley Scott | I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film. | 122 |
| Samuel L. Jackson | All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff. | 122 |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | I heard about the movie business before I even knew what it was. So I surround myself now with people who are like, 'Can we not talk about movies for an hour?' | 122 |
| David Chase | I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies. | 122 |
| Jennifer Love Hewitt | I'm actually scared of horror movies. I'm kind of Scaredy Cat when it comes to that stuff. | 122 |
| Adam Sandler | Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for. | 123 |
| Chris Rock | Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them. | 123 |
| Daniel Craig | I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good. | 123 |
| George Lucas | I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones. | 123 |
| Jennifer Lawrence | I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece. | 123 |
| Kevin Bacon | My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them. | 123 |
| Reed Hastings | Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows. | 123 |
| Tony Curtis | I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day. | 123 |
| 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. | 124 |
| Cam Newton | My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom. | 124 |
| Corey Taylor | 'The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even come out. It was one of the first movies I'd seen like that. I didn't even realize it was a damn movie! | 124 |
| Douglas Rushkoff | As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames. | 124 |
| George Lucas | I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. | 124 |
| Gerard Way | I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it. | 124 |
| Harvey Weinstein | I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now. | 124 |
| Kirsten Dunst | It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes. | 124 |
| Liam Hemsworth | We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it. | 124 |
| LL Cool J | The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee. | 124 |
| Salman Khan | People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs. | 124 |
| Viggo Mortensen | I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime. | 124 |
| James McAvoy | I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights. | 124 |
| J. J. Abrams | I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. | 124 |
| David Chase | I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies. | 124 |
| Jay-Z | Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way. | 125 |
| Tim Burton | I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. I was much more terrified by my own family and real life, you know? | 125 |
| bell hooks | An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it. | 125 |
| Edward Norton | I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility. | 125 |
| Michael Moore | I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. | 125 |
| Jim Morrison | Film spectators are quiet vampires. | 126 |
| Will Smith | I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious. | 126 |
| Ai Weiwei | People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK? | 126 |
| Ashton Kutcher | In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.' | 126 |
| Brad Pitt | I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. | 126 |
| Britney Spears | Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them. | 126 |
| Quentin Tarantino | I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't. | 126 |
| Viggo Mortensen | In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved. | 126 |
| Johnny Weir | Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am. | 126 |
| Charlie Chaplin | Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. | 201 |
| Christopher Walken | I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me. | 201 |
| Jackie Chan | For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies. | 201 |
| Penn Jillette | I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that. | 201 |
| Richard Pryor | I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it. | 201 |
| Tina Turner | Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some. | 201 |
| Virginia Postrel | Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id. | 201 |
| Ashley Tisdale | I am so scared of the 'Paranormal Activity' movies. I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep. | 201 |
| David Chase | The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same. | 201 |
| Audrey Hepburn | Everything I learned I learned from the movies. | 202 |
| Kevin Hart | I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out - 'Ride Along,' 'Grudge Match,' 'About Last Night,' 'Think Like a Man Too' - are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale. | 202 |
| Steve Martin | 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. | 202 |
| Bindi Irwin | If you said 'Boo' to me, I wouldn't sleep for two weeks! I don't like scary movies. | 202 |
| Jason Statham | Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately. | 202 |
| Keanu Reeves | How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed. | 202 |
| Rick Perry | There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds. | 202 |
| Bette Davis | I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. | 203 |
| Christian Bale | 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. | 203 |
| Dita Von Teese | When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time. | 203 |
| Jeff Bridges | In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations. | 203 |
| Marlee Matlin | The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure. | 203 |
| Penelope Cruz | There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down. | 203 |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike. | 203 |
| Samuel Goldwyn | Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it. | 203 |
| Sylvester Stallone | I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog. | 203 |
| Elvis Presley | Too much TV hurts movies. | 204 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Television is chewing gum for the eyes. | 204 |
| Ben Affleck | I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures. | 204 |
| Christopher Walken | Morning is the best time to see movies. | 204 |
| George Lucas | Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater. | 204 |
| LL Cool J | I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies. | 204 |
| Marlene Dietrich | I never enjoyed working in a film. | 204 |
| Nathan Myhrvold | We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months. | 204 |
| Tom Hanks | 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. | 204 |
| Orson Welles | I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. | 205 |
| Emma Stone | I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like, be a part of movies that have the same idea that the movies that impacted me have. I'd like to be able to do that for people. | 205 |
| Jennifer Aniston | I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous. | 205 |
| Katy Perry | Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised. | 205 |
| Lana Del Rey | I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies. | 205 |
| Ridley Scott | A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. | 205 |
| Roger Ebert | My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.' | 205 |
| Vin Diesel | I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies. | 205 |
| Audrey Hepburn | I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine. | 206 |
| Johnny Depp | 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. | 206 |
| 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. | 206 |
| Al Pacino | You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted. | 206 |
| Daniel Craig | You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes,' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret. | 206 |
| Kirk Cameron | For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting. | 206 |
| Nicolas Cage | 'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching. | 206 |
| Quentin Tarantino | If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one. | 206 |
| Dennis Quaid | Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore. | 206 |
| Tippi Hedren | Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense. | 206 |
| Morgan Freeman | 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. | 207 |
| Quentin Tarantino | 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. | 207 |
| Maggie Q | I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies with vampires in them. | 207 |
| Elvis Presley | 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. | 208 |
| Tim Burton | I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. | 208 |
| Quentin Tarantino | Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life. | 208 |
| 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. | 208 |
| Park Chan-wook | When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies. | 208 |
| Orson Welles | A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. | 209 |
| Tim Burton | When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me. | 209 |
| George Lucas | I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made. | 209 |
| John Lasseter | 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. | 209 |
| Quentin Tarantino | Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it. | 209 |
| Joss Whedon | I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me. | 209 |
| Christian Louboutin | I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women. | 210 |
| David Chang | I think being Shaquille O'Neal would be the most amazing thing. There's nothing I would have done differently in his life. Everything he's done I think is pretty spot on, even, like, the bad rap videos, the shoes, the movies, everything. | 210 |
| Diane Ackerman | We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning. | 210 |
| Liam Neeson | Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change. | 210 |
| Shaquille O'Neal | I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. | 210 |
| Will Smith | 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. | 211 |
| Chris Evans | I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views. | 211 |
| George Lucas | The secret to film is that it's an illusion. | 211 |
| Quentin Tarantino | All my movies are achingly personal. | 211 |
| Morgan Freeman | 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. | 212 |
| George Lucas | Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. | 212 |
| Jean Cocteau | A film is a petrified fountain of thought. | 212 |
| Megan Fox | I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded. | 212 |
| Tom Ford | I think people are sick of trends changing every six months - not because we're tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover. | 212 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention. | 213 |
| Dwayne Johnson | Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards - a massive star. | 213 |
| Jodie Foster | I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies. | 213 |
| James Surowiecki | Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself. | 213 |
| Martin Rees | Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in. | 213 |
| Johnny Depp | Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore. | 214 |
| Kristen Stewart | I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either. | 214 |
| Sylvester Stallone | In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl. | 214 |
| Trent Reznor | Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look. | 214 |
| Viggo Mortensen | To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life. | 214 |
| Moby | 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. | 214 |
| Maya Angelou | In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. | 215 |
| 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? | 215 |
| Vin Diesel | You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run. | 215 |
| Chris Evans | If making movies was easier, there'd be a lot more good movies. So you kind of learn that if it's just a good script, or if it's just a good producer, that's not always enough. You need an entire team of creative people coming together. | 216 |
| Christina Aguilera | I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. | 217 |
| Douglas Coupland | Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.' | 217 |
| Roger Ebert | Most of us do not consciously look at movies. | 217 |
| Derek Jeter | During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day. | 218 |
| George Lucas | There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom. | 218 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | 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. | 218 |
| Joss Whedon | 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. | 218 |
| Ice Cube | I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art. | 219 |
| J. Cole | I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies. | 219 |
| Alan Dershowitz | On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction. | 220 |
| Nicolas Cage | I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way. | 220 |
| Virginia Postrel | The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence. To the right audience, Halle Berry is more glamorous commanding the elements as Storm in the X-Men movies than she is walking the red carpet in a designer gown. | 220 |
| Andy Warhol | People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. | 223 |
| Robin Williams | Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it. | 223 |
| Alan Alda | If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money. | 223 |
| George Lucas | I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking. | 223 |
| Salman Rushdie | As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too. | 223 |
| Sylvester Stallone | You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive. | 223 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | I took some time off after 'Titanic' because I needed to let the dust settle and recharge my battery. I felt, 'OK, you've been given a tremendous opportunity; what are you going to do with it? Now your name can finance movies that you do want to do.' | 225 |
| Sylvester Stallone | There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in. | 225 |
| Steven Spielberg | 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. | 226 |
| Jackie Chan | When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee. | 226 |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | 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. | 226 |
| Nicolas Cage | I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do. | 226 |
| Drew Barrymore | I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me. | 301 |
| Marilyn Monroe | An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. | 302 |
| Priyanka Chopra | I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far. | 302 |
| Steven Spielberg | When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. | 303 |
| Seth Shostak | People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science. | 303 |
| George Lucas | The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie. | 304 |
| Louis C. K. | A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together. | 305 |
| Samuel Goldwyn | Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing? | 305 |
| Sylvester Stallone | The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end. | 305 |
| Jackie Chan | I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on. | 306 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. | 307 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out. | 307 |
| Nicolas Cage | There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out. | 307 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have. | 308 |
| Gore Vidal | I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then. | 308 |
| Marilyn Manson | I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you. | 308 |
| Nicolas Cage | I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.' | 308 |
| Sylvester Stallone | I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. | 308 |
| Steven Spielberg | I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism. | 309 |
| Drew Barrymore | Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class. | 309 |
| Orson Welles | I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.' | 310 |
| Steven Spielberg | You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make. | 310 |
| Steven Spielberg | I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. | 311 |
| Johnny Depp | 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. | 313 |
| Drew Barrymore | I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff, too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels'. | 313 |
| Ridley Scott | One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar. | 314 |
| Woody Allen | If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right. | 316 |
| Steven Spielberg | Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. | 316 |
| Jackie Chan | I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years. | 317 |
| Sylvester Stallone | I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work. | 317 |
| Marilyn Manson | Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies. | 320 |
| Andy Warhol | I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching? | 322 |
| Jackie Chan | I've choreographed all of my movies. | 324 |
| Marilyn Manson | Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do. | 325 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun. | 326 |
| Marilyn Monroe | Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either. | 401 |
| Jackie Chan | I really like children to watch my movies. | 401 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories. | 404 |
| Marilyn Manson | I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate. | 408 |
| Clint Eastwood | There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. | 413 |
| Will Rogers | I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. | 417 |
| Jackie Chan | I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans. | 419 |
| Will Rogers | There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education. | 425 |
| Marilyn Manson | Watching movies is my one distraction. | 506 |
| Will Rogers | The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. | 510 |
| Sandra Bullock | Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.' | 520 |
| Maya Angelou | I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly. | 625 |
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