Movies Quotes

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.

~ Rick Moranis

On Sundays, we would travel to the town and watch English movies. This way, we must have ended up watching some 1,000 movies during college.

~ Shiv Nadar

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can watch movies and listen to music. And my Gameboy. That's a good time-killer.

~ Bill Engvall

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.

~ Ridley Scott

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

~ Tommy Lee Jones

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

~ Trent Reznor

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

~ Xavier Dolan

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

~ Robert Rodríguez

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

~ Peter Jackson

When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.

~ Steve Erickson

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

~ Joel Kinnaman

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

~ Brian K. Vaughan

It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.

~ Ari Graynor

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

~ John Hughes

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

~ Nicolas Roeg

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

~ Nick Kroll

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.

~ Dakota Fanning

It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.

~ Gayle Forman

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

~ Sylvester Stallone

I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the human complexity, and those movies are so well shot. Cinematic greatness. I really stopped going in my early twenties.

~ Jay-Z

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

~ R. Kelly

I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fatigue.

~ Robin Wright

I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.

~ Fergie

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

~ James Wan

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

~ Kevin Bacon

I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies.

~ Chris Evans

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

~ Jodie Foster

I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

~ Adrian Tomine

I don't have a favourite romantic scene, but I enjoy romantic movies like 'Ghost' and 'Music and Lyrics.'

~ Hansika Motwani

Movies are romantic fantasies.

~ Ira Sachs

I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.

~ Rutina Wesley

It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.

~ Billy Dee Williams

I don't like high concept movies very much, and the kind of scripts that I would occasionally get offered tended to be really high concept comedies or romantic comedies. I just don't like it. I like much more realistic movies with actual psychology and behavior in them.

~ Greg Mottola

With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.

~ Callie Khouri

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

~ Dylan Mcdermott

I watch 'The Notebook.' I love romantic movies. I love romantic comedies.

~ Romeo Miller

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

~ Donald Cerrone

I've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know.

~ Mike Binder

With 'GoldenEye,' the franchise got locked into this legal fight. They couldn't make new Bond movies for about seven years. It was my first huge production. I figured if I did at least a yeoman-like job, it would be greeted as a complete revival of the series.

~ Martin Campbell