People Quotes

In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is because those are the people that can do that kind of work. It's not just an accident those people are in the film.

~ Christopher Guest

I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.

~ Jesse Eisenberg

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

~ Jodie Foster

I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

~ D. B. Sweeney

The movies I like watching the most are these sort of cinema verite, handheld films where you really get gritty with people. But I also have this strange affinity for old Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies and things that sort of pop out where you see the frames, where you have these 2D animation moments and split-screens and things like that.

~ James Gunn

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.

~ James Patterson

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

~ Edward Norton

People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.

~ Peter Landesman

I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

~ Sabrina Carpenter

So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.

~ Kevin Smith

I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

~ Allison Anders

You still get the movies made. A filmmaker can always scrape up money to do a movie. The passion drives it. And you'll get the money. Money's the easiest thing. But the hardest thing is finding a way for people to see your movie.

~ Allison Anders

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

~ David Fincher

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

~ David Fincher

The two Hindi movies that I did were not marketed well, and so not many people came to watch the film, hence the audience doesn't know much about me. I am a newcomer, and I cannot sell a film on my own. There has to be a backing in terms of producers.

~ Tena Desae

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.

~ Emily Browning

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

~ Wim Wenders

I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the Academy, which is the first comedy made with Charlie Chaplin in 1914, and I sat there, and I couldn't believe that the entire audience of 2,000 people were laughing that hard from a movie made in 1914 - and there were no words; it was all faces.

~ Taylor Negron

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

~ River Phoenix

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.

~ Tim Conway

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

~ Mary Schmich

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.

~ Marvin Hamlisch

I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

~ Olivia Holt

I really realize the more movies I do just how important - it's so cliche when people say it, because everybody says it nowadays - but it's so important to keep it grounded. I totally understand what that means.

~ Ken Jeong

There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to. I think audiences are clamoring to connect - particularly after 9/11 - with things that are genuine and real and I think documentaries are filling that need.

~ George Hickenlooper

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

~ Peter Weller

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

~ Dan Glickman

I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.

~ Paige Turco

To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.

~ Pauline Hanson

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

~ James Joyce

Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it.

~ Payne Stewart

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

~ George Galloway

I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.

~ Joseph Brodsky

It is true that of all the states in India, Nagaland has a unique history. We are sensitive to this historical fact. But this uniqueness has in no way diminished the spirit of patriotism among the Naga people.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I don't think a lot of people are able to relate to genuine patriotism, a genuinely good feeling about our country and its meaning to the rest of the world.

~ Christopher Mcculloch

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

~ Richard Ford

I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.

~ Marian Anderson

I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.

~ Palaniappan Chidambaram

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

~ Muhammad Ali