Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.
~By Penelope Spheeris ~
I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.
~By Kevin Costner ~
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.
~By Dino De Laurentiis ~
I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.
~By Gena Rowlands ~
Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.
~By Donal Logue ~
It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.
~By Chevy Chase ~
Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
~By Tom Sizemore ~
Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting.
~By Claudia Schiffer ~
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
~By Scarlett Johansson ~
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.
~By Bob Balaban ~
Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.
~By Peter Bart ~
The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.
~By Fisher Stevens ~
Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.
~By Bridgette Wilson ~
I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
~By Danny Boyle ~
There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.
~By Jerry Bruckheimer ~
I love animals and I love to see movies with animals that are done respectfully, you know?
~By Kristin Davis ~
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
~By Dan Simmons ~
If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.
~By Ivan Lendl ~
Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me.
~By Cuba Gooding, Jr. ~
It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
~By Roland Emmerich ~
I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
~By Eddie Marsan ~
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.
~By Brian De Palma ~
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
~By Tim Robbins ~
If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.
~By Richard King ~
In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it.
~By Rosie Perez ~
I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.
~By Julia Roberts ~
I've always been a bit of a sound freak in the movies I've done.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.
~By Jason Statham ~
I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.
~By Campbell Scott ~
I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.
~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
~By Alex Winter ~
That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.
~By Gene Siskel ~
Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.
~By Robert Benton ~
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
~By Roger Ebert ~
When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
~By Warren Beatty ~
Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
~By Dario Argento ~
They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.
~By David R. Ellis ~
We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.
~By Adam Arkin ~
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
~By Richard Dreyfuss ~
He's my favorite! He wrote and produced, and starred in and cast all of his movies! Can you imagine? I get really excited when I talk about Charlie Chaplin.
~By Emma Stone ~
I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.
~By Stephen Dorff ~
I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.
~By Mila Kunis ~
I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
~By Natalie Wood ~
I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
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.
~By Terry Gilliam ~
I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.
~By Josh Ryan Evans ~
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.
~By Edward Zwick ~
Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.
~By Marvin Hamlisch ~
I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.
~By Andy Garcia ~
Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
~By Barry Levinson ~
I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him.
~By Katie Holmes ~
De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
I want to be like Tom Cruise from The Outsiders and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.
~By Ashton Kutcher ~
Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
~By Walter Jon Williams ~
I have a record company starting. It's called Flesh Records and I'm putting together music for porno movies.
~By Adam Jones ~
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.
~By William Petersen ~
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.
~By Christina Ricci ~
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
~By J. Lee Thompson ~
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
~By Alex Winter ~
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
~By Uwe Boll ~
There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.
~By Pierce Brosnan ~
There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.
~By Tim McGraw ~
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.
~By Jerry Lawler ~
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
~By Sam Raimi ~
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
~By Alex Winter ~
I love all of his movies. I love all his movies. I love Tom.
~By Katie Holmes ~
I love talking about movies that mean something to me.
~By Jena Malone ~
Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.
~By Brian Setzer ~
In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.
~By Kristen Bell ~
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
~By Richard Pryor ~
Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
~By Dario Argento ~
When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
~By Kevin Costner ~
Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.
~By Rick Moranis ~
I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.
~By Kim Novak ~
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
~By Laura Dern ~
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
~By Sam Mendes ~
It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.
~By Taryn Manning ~
I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
I make movies I want to see.
~By Neil LaBute ~
I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
~By Mary Schmich ~
Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.
~By Jessica Hagedorn ~
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
~By Zac Efron ~
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.
~By Billy Joel ~
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.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
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.
~By John Woo ~
Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.
~By Robert Evans ~
I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
~By Salma Hayek ~
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
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