Movies

I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial hair. I had put on all this weight for these movies, and I did four or five of them back-to-back. Then I cut the weight and I got fit again. I cut my beard and I took away the mustache, and people were like, 'What are you doing?'

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.

Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

There are different reasons to make movies.

I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.

If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies, I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

I love action movies.

If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

There's nothing more American than movies.

You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

I don't devour huge amounts of television. I'm more naturally inclined to watch movies, but given my job, I need to have an understanding of what's on TV.

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

I love so-called movies that are bad movies, but 'Prometheus' is one of those movies that people are gonna come back around on in 20 years. There's gonna be midnight screenings of that thing.

I like to go to the movies or read.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried on the shoulders of someone who looked like me.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials - they're not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States.

I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

I like movies about failing.

In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative, I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

Movies are an expensive business.

Normally movies have the same people they use over and over for everything. It's called typecasting. They don't like to take chances. They'll go with the guy they had before.

You watch movies and see bands you like and copy them and see what you can hold. I mean, it's all down to how you hold what you wear.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

I think it would be frustrating having to do things you wouldn't want to do, having to make movies you didn't like.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

I've been in movies where so much of the conversation was about, 'Well, after this movie, you're gonna be the biggest movie star.' I sort of have learned that you never really can predict any of that.

My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.

I have always wanted to do a show where I could stay home. When you make movies, you might as well take a dart and throw it at a map.

John McTiernan, the director, is not Ingmar Bergman. He does action-adventure movies.

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression, that's art.

I like Hollywood movies. I like them like I like to eat scrambled eggs, I like them for fun.

In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

I love horror movies! I've loved horror movies since I was about eight years old, not that an 8-year-old should be watching 'The Shining', but I was allowed to for some reason.

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

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.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

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.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

I really like action movies. The 'Die Hard' franchise. And the 'Bourne' movies.

I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.

I've noticed that when people make vampire movies, they're always determining which of the rules they're going to stick to and which they'll abandon.

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

'Gremlins' is one of those eternal movies that stands the test of time and that everyone loves and knows.

I'm a huge fan of movies, and I watch DVDs all day, and I like to be able to watch DVDs that are different from what was in theaters. Whether that's uncut or a director's cut. I think it's an awesome way to rediscover the movie.

If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.'

'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?

I'm an actor, but I'm also a feminist, and a lot of times in movies there are things that I cannot imagine happening that are on the screen and totally accepted. And I just go, 'Whaaat?'

Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.

Movies can tell us about our place, or lack of place, in our culture.

I loved 'Clueless.' That was one of my favorite movies of all time.

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.

You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

I was always focussed on the modelling and succeeding in that, but now I'm completely focused on making it over in India in the movies.

You get people coming up to you and asking about movies, especially in Chennai, which is nice.

I feel like I prefer movies, but, at the same time, theater is so exciting when you're doing it. It's a harder job doing theater.

I don't go to enough movies.

I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me.

I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.

My children haven't even seen most of my movies.

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.

Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.

I want to put elements from movies into TV to raise the quality of TV.

I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.

In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.

I never argue with people about movies.

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

I think in the future we might see things arrive the way Prince announces a concert where a few days before the show he announces it and tickets just go up. You might see that with movies and other things.

I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry.

You are defined by who you are, by your choices in life, in all regards, not just in doing movies.

Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies, for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

I did a couple of pilots that didn't sell, a few movies, and one year of nightclub work, which I hated. Then I did the pilot of 'The Brady Bunch' and never had to do another nightclub.

I'm a huge, huge lover of weaponry, of Japanese martial arts movies.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously.

Watching 'Interstellar' is really like watching two movies slowly collide with each other.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

My mother loved movies, and I loved movies like she loved movies. So I wanted to do that. I'd send away for movie magazines - the old thing of everybody wanting to be a star or whatever.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, 'Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.'

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.

Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.

I've made some movies that I really loved that nobody saw.

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.

I never felt fanboyish about acting, about actors, about movies. I'm a fanboy with music.

I want to do movies, television and theater. Whatever comes along.

So many movies just have two pretty people thrown together.

You can be really weird, and people will still accept you if you're in movies. I'm not actually weird, but if I feel like being weird, then I can do it, and they accept it because you're an actor.

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.

I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.

Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!

With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.

I don't go out a lot, as I like to stay in. I often go for dinners with my girlfriend, and I love to see movies at the cinema, but I don't understand them.

Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

'Cause movies are human drama, that's it.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

I like making movies.

You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.

The Fred Astaire movies made a huge impression on me.

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

I am not born to make dreamy movies.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.

Through movies, I have met nearly everyone I have wanted to, except Woody Allen.

I would watch films like 'Frances Ha' and 'The Squid and the Whale,' and wonder why we weren't making these beautiful slice-of-life movies. Then I thought, 'Why am I not doing it?'

It is kind of bizarre, but at the same time, I feel like anyone that gets into movies didn't fit into the real world, and so we made our own world.

Movies are my bread and butter and my inherent passion.

Who doesn't know about Bollywood? After all, we churn out movies in such great quantities every year! People across the globe know Shekhar Kapur.

I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies, he's great.

I'm a great fan of Woody Allen's movies.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

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

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.

I have been in a lot of movies, but none of them are critics' darlings, you might say.