Movies and Cinema Quotes

"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."

"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."

"America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself."

"An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."

"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."

"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."

"As a filmmaker, I believe in trying to make movies that invite the audience to be part of the film; in other words, there are some films where I'm just a spectator and am simply observing from the front seat. What I try to do is draw the audience into the film and have them participate in what's happening onscreen."

"Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous."

"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."

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world."

"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."

"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."

"Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.'"

"Film spectators are quiet vampires."

"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."

"Girls may love movies about fairytale princes, but their most captivating romance is with their friends."

"Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success."

"Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it."

"How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand."

"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."

"I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies."

"I did a few movies, but the word 'star'... I cannot compare to a star like Clint Eastwood. I used to call Clint 'Larry Dickman' when he would come to my show; then, he started using the name when he would go under cover in a 'Dirty Harry' movie. That's why he's a movie star... he's so creative."

"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."

"I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me."

"I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great."

"I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it."

"I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache."

"I feel very lucky to be able to make movies in New Zealand, and I will always be grateful for the support I have received from so many New Zealanders."

"I grew up with action movies in my head."

"I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun."

"I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans."

"I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies."

"I like cable: you only work four months out of the year and have the other eight months to do movies if you want."

"I like four-hour movies."

"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?"

"I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week."

"I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time."

"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."

"I love all of the Marvel comics movies."

"I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history."

"I love movies like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Juno.' Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing."

"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."

"I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that."

"I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something."

"I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess."

"I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad."