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 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 know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.
~By John Milius ~
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.
~By Holly Hunter ~
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.
~By Sean Young ~
Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
~By Cameron Crowe ~
I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order.
~By Tom McClintock ~
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
~By Tim Burton ~
I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.
~By Patti Page ~
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 don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
~By Omar Sharif ~
A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
~By Jason Statham ~
I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'
~By John Sayles ~
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
~By Yahoo Serious ~
I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.
~By Donald O'Connor ~
Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.
~By Dennis Farina ~
Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.
~By Tony Scott ~
I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
~By Sissy Spacek ~
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 ~
These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
~By Barry Sonnenfeld ~
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.
~By Sharon Stone ~
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
~By Jet Li ~
I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.
~By Rachel Griffiths ~
Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
~By Klaus Kinski ~
When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
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 ~
I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.
~By Eric Stoltz ~
I don't like movies that are morally simple.
~By Paul Mazursky ~
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 ~
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way.
~By James Franco ~
Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies.
~By Peter Gallagher ~
I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.
~By Jason Patric ~
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
~By Alex Winter ~
First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
I like movies that make you think.
~By Robin Wright Penn ~
I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.
~By Dennis Quaid ~
I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.
~By Meg Tilly ~
I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
~By Fred Savage ~
I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
~By Samuel L. Jackson ~
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.
~By Eli Wallach ~
Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
~By Frances McDormand ~
And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.
~By Ridley Scott ~
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 ~
Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.
~By Jami Gertz ~
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 ~
Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!
~By Phillip Noyce ~
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
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 ~
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
~By Jason Patric ~
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.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
~By Yahoo Serious ~
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.
~By John Singleton ~
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 ~
With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.
~By Don Bluth ~
I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
~By Ryan Phillippe ~
In a sense I feel very much a part of the cinema now in a way where when I come back to the theater now I feel like a visitor. The cinema is really what I enjoy. I want to do more independent movies.
~By Brian Cox ~
Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
~By Richard Pryor ~
I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.
~By Matt Damon ~
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 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.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
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.
~By Dakota Fanning ~
I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
~By Matthew Vaughn ~
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.
~By Matthew Vaughn ~
I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
~By Christopher Walken ~
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 ~
And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.
~By Ted Demme ~
There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
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!
~By Emma Stone ~
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
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.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
~By Dario Argento ~
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.
~By Lauren Ambrose ~
Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.
~By Bob Balaban ~
I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.
~By Gregory Hines ~
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.
~By Samantha Mumba ~
The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.
~By Jeffrey Wright ~
So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.
~By Robert Klein ~
It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.
~By Blair Underwood ~
When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.
~By Alexis Smith ~
Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.
~By Richard Widmark ~
And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.
~By Christian Bale ~
I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.
~By Andrew McCarthy ~
It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.
~By Terence Stamp ~
I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.
~By Scott Speedman ~
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 ~
Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
~By Campbell Scott ~
It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
~By Matthew Vaughn ~
I love turning my daughter on to old movies.
~By Susie Bright ~
I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.
~By Joseph Bologna ~
So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
~By Faye Dunaway ~
I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.
~By Clea Duvall ~
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 ~
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