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 ~
It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else.
~By Paul Reiser ~
Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.
~By Jami Gertz ~
Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.
~By Jan de Bont ~
I love turning my daughter on to old movies.
~By Susie Bright ~
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 ~
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.
~By Elvis Presley ~
When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.
~By Alexis Smith ~
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.
~By Dennis Farina ~
I didn't quit movies. They quit me.
~By Jane Powell ~
I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.
~By Tim Robbins ~
My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
~By Elvis Presley ~
In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.
~By John Hench ~
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.
~By Edward Furlong ~
We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
~By Jessica Hagedorn ~
I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.
~By Jason Segel ~
Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.
~By Griffin Dunne ~
As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.
~By Linda Fiorentino ~
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
~By Famke Janssen ~
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.
~By Guillermo del Toro ~
I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
~By Roger Ebert ~
The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.
~By Clive Barker ~
Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
~By Mickey Rourke ~
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.
~By Tim Burton ~
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
~By Oliver Stone ~
The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.
~By Jodie Foster ~
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.
~By Dougray Scott ~
I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.
~By Joe Pantoliano ~
I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
~By Patricia Arquette ~
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 ~
I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.
~By Corin Nemec ~
The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.
~By David Cronenberg ~
It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.
~By Edward Furlong ~
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
~By David Lynch ~
In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
~By Bill Conti ~
I like to make movies I like to watch.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
~By Maureen O'Hara ~
I think drug movies free the director to make intense films.
~By Ray Liotta ~
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
~By Conrad Hall ~
My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.
~By Christopher Walken ~
I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.
~By Tony Curtis ~
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.
~By Josh Holloway ~
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
~By Mary Schmich ~
I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.
~By Tim Conway ~
I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.
~By Kitty Carlisle ~
Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is.
~By Joseph Bologna ~
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.
~By John Cusack ~
I never go overbudget on my movies.
~By Stanley Tucci ~
It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well.
~By Bobby Farrelly ~
I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.
~By Donna Mills ~
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.
~By Winona Ryder ~
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.
~By Geraldine Chaplin ~
Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it.
~By Lynn Redgrave ~
More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.
~By Richard King ~
I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
~By Orlando Jones ~
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.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
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.
~By Michael Bay ~
I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.
~By Dennis Farina ~
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
~By Samuel L. Jackson ~
After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made.
~By Tommy Kirk ~
I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
The future is always a dystopia in movies.
~By Alex Cox ~
That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
~By Peter Bart ~
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.
~By John Badham ~
I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.
~By Robin Tunney ~
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
~By Wim Wenders ~
I make movies for money, exclusively for money.
~By Klaus Kinski ~
I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies.
~By William Peter Blatty ~
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.
~By Roland Emmerich ~
I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.
~By Bruce Vilanch ~
When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
~By Barbet Schroeder ~
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.
~By John Cusack ~
I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.
~By Christopher Plummer ~
Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.
~By Colleen Haskell ~
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
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.
~By Lucas Grabeel ~
Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.
~By Avi Arad ~
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.
~By J Allard ~
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
~By Robert Wagner ~
I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
~By Piper Laurie ~
I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.
~By George Clooney ~
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
~By Lionel Barrymore ~
I like movies that make you think.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.
~By Sharon Stone ~
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