Movies and Cinema Quotes

"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."

"My family never went to a restaurant together; we never went to the movies together. Vacation, we never did that."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody to fix and nurse me, and I'd take her hostage for six months. When you're 23, 24, you want to be in a relationship because they look brilliant - you've heard all the songs about it and seen all the movies and it looks great."

"If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person."

"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 wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book."

"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."

"I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it."

"Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen."

"There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out."

"When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee."

"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."

"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."

"Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually."

"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 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."

"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 love all of the Marvel comics movies."

"Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do."

"I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself."

"Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems."

"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."

"I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows."

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

"I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way."

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

"People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams."

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

"There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies."

"I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend... I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York, and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies."

"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."

"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."

"When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget."

"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."

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