c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
— Winona Ryder
The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.
— Brigitte Bardot
I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
— Salma Hayek
I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.
— Salma Hayek
The good thing about songwriting is you don't have to delineate between what's true and what's fiction; records aren't put on the shelf that way. Books are, movies are, but records aren't.
— Jason Isbell
If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
— Alan Alda
I love to watch movies.
— Judy Blume
I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
— Christopher Walken
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
— Ang Lee
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
— Ang Lee
I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
— Natalie Dormer
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.
— Douglas Rushkoff
I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
— Kevin Bacon
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
— Michael Caine
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
— Martin Scorsese
I think these movies are definitely comedies. It's quite difficult to take a superhero movie seriously because everything is heightened. A kid being bitten by a radioactive spider and getting superpowers is kind of ridiculous.
— Tom Holland
I remember actually going to see the first 'Avengers' with one of my best mates from home. I'd never have dreamed that I'd be in one of these movies, let alone playing Spider-Man.
— Tom Holland
Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.
— Tyler Perry
People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
— Steve Martin
I love being in these ensemble comedy movies. I love working with a bunch of people and coming up with, you know, How can we make this moment funnier?
— Jane Lynch
There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'
— Stellan Skarsgard
When I realized that my big dream was going to come true - 'Night Shift' was a success, 'Splash' was a success, I got the job to do 'Cocoon' - suddenly, I was underway. And I knew my name was rising up the lists. I was going to have a career. I was going to be able to direct movies until I screwed it up.
— Ron Howard
Comics are a dying art. If you ask a little kid to choose between a video game with insane graphics or comic books... you have to compete with cable, satellite TV with its thousands of channels, and with video games that are like movies, with CGI explosions where you can blow up worlds.
— Glenn Danzig
Hollywood is a boys' club, and that's something I thought was a stereotype - and it's not. That really shocked me. Still shocks me. Everyone's helping their buddies out and pressing their buddies and playing tennis with their buddies and making movies with their buddies, and that grosses me out.
— Emily Ratajkowski
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
— Robert Redford
I'm afraid that eating in restaurants reflects one's experiences with movies, art galleries, novels, music - that is, characterized by mild amusement but with an overall feeling of stupidity and shame. Better to cook for yourself.
— Jim Harrison
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
— Meryl Streep
My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.
— Jerry Hall
I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that.
— Demetri Martin
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
— Jackie Chan
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
— Jackie Chan
I don't think people are experiencing superhero fatigue. Do you hear people complaining that there are too many action movies? I think it's good entertainment.
— Michael Pena
'Spider-Man' seems to have a different tone to the pure Marvel stuff, but I really enjoyed the 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' and 'Iron Man' movies. I love the special effects and how it seems very real, but at the same time, it still lives within the realm of Marvel. That's got to be a lot of work.
— Michael Pena
Some horror movies are just for shock value, so it doesn't really feel scary.
— Michael Pena
Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
— Monica Bellucci
I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man... there is a tradition in the most simplistic of action movies for there to be some horrible villain.
— Edward Zwick
There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.
— Patty Jenkins
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
If you're strutting around Beverly Hills and hitting up these big industry parties every night when you're not making movies, then it's going to eventually consume you. But for me, I live most of my life in Boston. I do things no different from the way my buddies back home do them, except when I go to work, I go to a film set.
— Chris Evans
I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.
— Debbie Reynolds
The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
— Damien Chazelle
I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
— Damien Chazelle
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
— Damien Chazelle
'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing it's about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way. 
— Damien Chazelle
I really like action movies. The 'Die Hard' franchise. And the 'Bourne' movies.
— Alexa Chung
It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.
— Ice Cube
Tarantino's movies are smartly intoxicating cocktails of rampage and meditation; they're in-your-face, with a mac-10 machine pistol and a quote from the Old Testament. They blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall.
— Richard Corliss
The people who run Hollywood are supposed to be masters at creating drama, suspense, thrills - at putting on a great show. If we knew not only who the winners were but also by how much they won, the Oscar show could actually be the Super Bowl of movies.
— Richard Corliss
Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
— Quentin Tarantino
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
When I'm writing fiction, I read nonfiction or biographies. Now I'm watching very old movies or old foreign films. I don't immerse myself in whatever's going on in whatever area I'm working in.
— Whit Stillman
I am a massive film geek, and I love movies.
— James Arthur
With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
— Adam Driver
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
Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.
— Steve Erickson
I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.
— Kristen Stewart
I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.
— Kristen Stewart
Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.
— Yuna
We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.
— Chelsea Clinton
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
— Jodie Foster
I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.
— Jodie Foster
I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.
— Jodie Foster
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
— John Podhoretz
I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.
— Nick Harkaway
A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
— Clive Owen
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
— Dennis Quaid
Before I was an actor, I was never able to hold a job for more than 3 months for some reason. It just wouldn't hold my interest, so there was some way that I wound up quitting or getting fired from it. But being an actor is perfect, because movies usually take about three months to shoot. Then it's over and they say, 'Hey, great job!'
— Dennis Quaid
Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am.
— Johnny Weir
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
— Vin Diesel
The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue.
— Theresa Rebeck
If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
— Aaron Sorkin
I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.
— Jennifer Lopez
I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.
— Colin Trevorrow
If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
— Daniel Craig
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?
— Harvey Weinstein
I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?
— Christian Bale
There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.
— James Gray
I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.
— Liam Hemsworth
Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it.
— Bill O'Reilly
My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
— Adam Sandler
It's just weird that for some people, art is a luxury. My parents had no artistic outlet. Some people pass down music to their kids, but I couldn't tell you what my mom's or dad's favorite song is. So when I started going out into the world, I was drawn to people who knew about movies, art, even fashion.
— Channing Tatum
I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
— Channing Tatum
I'm not someone who sits at home and doesn't like to go out, doesn't like to watch movies. I like to live my life.
— Virat Kohli
The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they are all apprehending something that has not been spoken. That's the thrill of it, the miracle - that's what holds us to movies forever. It's what we wish we could do in real life.
— Mike Nichols
As much as I would love to do roles in big movies and am keen to establish myself in the industry. I don't want to sacrifice things that I really enjoy, like spending time with my family and friends.
— Will Poulter
Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.
— Ben Affleck
I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.
— Erin Heatherton
I'm not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.
— Deepika Padukone
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 only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.
— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
I absolutely love genre movies. When I was a kid, I was really impacted by genre films and cult classics.
— Lucas Till
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
— George Lucas
I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.
— George Lucas
Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.
— George Lucas
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 would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.
— Diane Kruger
Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.
— Jason Reitman
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.
— Morgan Freeman
I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.
— Will Smith
In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.
— Ahmed Zewail
I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
— Catherine Deneuve
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
— Eartha Kitt
I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.
— Nathan Fillion
I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.
— Rebel Wilson
My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
— L'Wren Scott
All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.
— Mark Wahlberg
'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.
— Karan Johar
Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
— Karan Johar
I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Which one?' A reasonable question, but I blanked completely. In that moment, I couldn't remember a single film that Hugh Jackman had done. So I copped out. 'The recent one!' And that was one of his biggest disasters. Well done, me.
— Karan Johar
Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.
— Michael Cimino
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
Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater?
— James Patterson
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.
— Spike Lee
A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
— Spike Lee
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
— Nicolas Roeg
Mirrors are the essence of movies.
— Nicolas Roeg
Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.
— Nicolas Roeg
Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.
— Rebecca Traister
I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
— Vera Farmiga
I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.
— Sophia Bush
I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw it's a pretty dreadful feeling. 
— Woody Harrelson
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
We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.
— Peter Landesman
People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.
— Peter Landesman
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.
— Adam Savage
Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer give the consumer what they want. 
— Ted Sarandos
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
— Richard Attenborough
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
— Bette Davis
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.
— Brittany Snow
My dad sat me in front of the TV, and instead of putting on Nick Jr. or something, he put me in front of 'Jailhouse Rock' and all the Elvis movies.
— Drake Bell
I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.
— Robert Downey, Jr.
I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.
— Amy Heckerling
When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
— Kevin Costner
I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
— Kevin Costner
I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
— Russell Crowe
I lost my front tooth in rugby league when a fat guy from Bellevue Hill kicked me in the face as I got up from a tackle to mark him. I made this decision not to cap the tooth because I thought it was false. But I didn't make any movies as a teenager, and I had a very hard time with girls and stuff.
— Russell Crowe
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
— James Wolcott
Right after 'The Wackness' came out, it was a really exciting time, and then it was a bit disappointing when it came out. Even though not that many people saw it, I was still getting offered some movies. I was thinking that people would just stop calling me since it didn't do very well at the box office.
— Jonathan Levine
Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
— Samuel Goldwyn
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
— Samuel Goldwyn
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
What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
— Ranbir Kapoor
Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
— Mike Myers
I hate when the sun is high and there are no shadows. If I could do super high-budget movies, I would only shoot when the sun starts to get low - but you can't just shoot for four hours every day.
— Susanne Bier
I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.
— Susanne Bier
I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.
— Bill Murray
I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.
— Bill Murray
I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old.
— Kirk Hammett
The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!
— Kirk Hammett
I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
— Charlie Kaufman
Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.
— Seth Rogen
Growing up I didn't watch movies.
— Denzel Washington
Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
— Tom Sizemore
If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
— Dario Argento
True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.
— Mark Frost
In India, there is a psychological problem that movies going to film festivals are boring. It is a problem with exhibitors.
— Anurag Kashyap
My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
— Sally Field
If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
— Dawn Steel
I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.
— Reese Witherspoon
I love movies.
— Greg Boyle
I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
— Macaulay Culkin
I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about.
— Hideo Kojima
'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.
— Greg Kinnear
I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.
— Heather Graham
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
Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
— Tippi Hedren
When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.
— Heath Ledger
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
— Ben Kingsley
I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
— Robert Rodriguez
I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
— Robert Rodriguez
We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning.
— Diane Ackerman
Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.
— Jonah Hill
I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.
— Jonah Hill
All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio, and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do.
— Steven Seagal
I love swimming, tennis, and I am taking up golf. I am not serious about it, I just go to the range and practice. Other than that, I enjoy going to the movies and hanging out with my friends.
— Mila Kunis
When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.
— Dita Von Teese
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
— Jack White
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.
— Adriana Lima
I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
— Harmony Korine
I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.
— Leslie Mann
My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.
— John Boyega
I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
— Lana Del Rey
I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there.
— Gerard Butler
You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.
— Pedro Almodovar
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.
— Famke Janssen
Ultimately, if you look at all my films from 'Bloody Sunday' on, they're steeped in a post-9/11 atmosphere. 'United 93' is directly about 9/11, of course, but every one of the movies deals with paranoia, mistrust, and fear.
— Paul Greengrass
It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
— Matthew Vaughn
When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
— Charles Kuralt
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
— Naomi Watts
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
— Naomi Watts
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
I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.
— Robert De Niro
I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.
— Hulk Hogan
Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.
— Jason Silva
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
— Tom Clancy
I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other - and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.
— Taylor Jenkins Reid
They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.
— Afrika Bambaataa
Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
— Maureen O'Hara
There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.
— Noah Hawley
A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background.
— Giorgio Moroder
It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
— Todd Phillips
I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles. I'm shooting for the middle.
— Bill Burr
Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
— Gary Ross
As a kid growing up in a small town in Washington State, my only exposure to New York City was through movies. The town with its towering skyscrapers, fascinating people and teeming energy absolutely captivated me.
— Robert Osborne
I love dancing just because I've done it my whole life and it's definitely what I want to do. I feel like, I want to train with acting and do movies. Those two are my main priorities. I definitely want to be able to sing and model, too. I definitely love those, too.
— Maddie Ziegler
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
— Sam Mendes
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
— Sam Mendes
I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
— Margot Kidder
It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments.
— Alfonso Cuaron
I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
— Samuel L. Jackson
I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
— Carlton Cuse
Movies portray men as tough guys.
— Geoffrey Canada
We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's.
— Peter Coyote
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
— Federico Fellini
The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.
— Joel Silver
I can't really remember my life without movies.
— Elle Fanning
Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
I was studying to be an architect, I wasn't plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.
— Hailee Steinfeld
I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.
— Tony Curtis
I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.
— Frank Miller
I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like 'Smallville,' 'Supernatural'... and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.
— Cory Monteith
I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
— Talulah Riley
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
I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.
— Common
I never enjoyed working in a film.
— Marlene Dietrich
I always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.
— Michel Hazanavicius
I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.
— Imogen Poots
I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
— Imtiaz Ali
I love going to the movies and getting Raisinets, a big tub of popcorn and a Coke. That's definitely a guilty pleasure because I can't be doing that all the time.
— Sanaa Lathan
I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.
— Antony Gormley
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
I do not fear anybody on the field or in society, but I fear at night when I am away from my parents. I am scared of the unknown described in horror movies.
— Saina Nehwal
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.
— Don Bluth
For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.
— Vinnie Jones
You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.
— Trevor Rabin
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
— Oliver Stone
In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.
— Loni Anderson
I don't intentionally make deep movies.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
— Richard King
I make movies I want to see.
— Neil LaBute
There are some movies you do for the character there are some movies you do for the people. 
— Kajal Aggarwal
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
— Yahoo Serious
I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.
— Joseph Abboud
Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. I wouldn't be who I am if it wasn't for the mind-altering glimpse at the future in 'Star Wars.'
— Kim Dotcom
On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.
— Michael Stipe
I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
— Kate McKinnon
These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension it's about the lack of any texture. 
— Patricia Clarkson
I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.
— Mark Hamill
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
— Sam Raimi
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.
— Anthony Mackie
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.
— Anthony Mackie
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
— Sam Raimi
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
I only make movies I want to go see.
— Jerry Bruckheimer