c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.
— Kurt Sutter
My friends tell me I'm the most boring celebrity they know! A typical night for me is at home in California or watching movies in my pyjamas.
— Amber Riley
In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
— Zoe Lister-Jones
'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
— Manny Farber
I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.
— Denis Leary
I wish there would be more movies about scientists.
— James D. Watson
Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line.
— Russell Peters
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?'
— A. J. Bowen
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.
— George Packer
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
— John Wayne
I make movies in order to make things understood, not to be shocking.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
I love to star in movies, but I want to have good roles. It doesn't help to get starring roles in something that's no good. I mean, that will just kill you.
— Joe Pesci
I do like going to the movies, but I like eating tons of sweets and ice cream, so I can't go to the movies anymore.
— Tyson Fury
Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
— T. C. Boyle
I guess I've been extremely keen on theatre, on getting on to the stage, taking on different roles, enacting vocations, personalities, people, situations, and I guess that's the interest that has driven me to work in movies.
— Amitabh Bachchan
I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.
— Parker Posey
I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
— Laura Kightlinger
Summer movies are spectacles that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop. 
— Jan de Bont
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
— Stan Sakai
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
— Jean Cocteau
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
— Pauline Kael
I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
— Denzel Washington
From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.
— Joe Eszterhas
The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
— Ben Affleck
My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.
— Emma Stone
Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.
— Petra Haden
If making movies was easier, there'd be a lot more good movies. So you kind of learn that if it's just a good script, or if it's just a good producer, that's not always enough. You need an entire team of creative people coming together.
— Chris Evans
I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
— Jean-Luc Godard
There's an electrical thing about movies.
— Oliver Stone
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
— Samuel Goldwyn
If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
— Woody Allen
I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.
— Francis Ford Coppola
So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.
— Ralph Fiennes
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
— John Hughes
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
— Douglas Sirk
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.
— Arthur Penn
I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, so it's always nice to watch movies that make you think that love at first sight is actually possible.
— Sterling Knight
I do think it's getting better, but I have noticed that Asians are not well represented in awards shows, and not a ton of Asian faces on the big screen either. Perhaps some of the young Asian actors who are on TV series now will be seen in upcoming movies in the near future - Jamie Chung, Constance Wu, Suzy Nakamura, to name a few. Fingers crossed.
— Lauren Tom
I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.
— Shirley MacLaine
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.
— Matt Damon
Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.
— James Stewart
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
— David Lynch
I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.
— Barry Watson
Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.
— Meg Tilly
It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.
— Dick Wolf
I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
— Fred Savage
I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
— Mel Smith
I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
— Omar Epps
I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
— Justin Timberlake
I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.
— Pedro Almodovar
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
— Roger Ebert
I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.
— Tom Selleck
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
— Michael Caine
When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV. 
— Christopher Walken
I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.
— Jan de Bont
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
— Bjork
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
— Samuel L. Jackson
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
— J. D. Salinger
I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
— Whoopi Goldberg
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.
— Adam West
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
— Morgan Freeman
I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
— Forest Whitaker
You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
— David Fincher
I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.
— Jennifer Lawrence
I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.
— Michel Hazanavicius
I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.
— Jean Dujardin
Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.
— Reed Hastings
I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.
— Chris Tucker
Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.
— Chris Tucker
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
— Charlie Kaufman
I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.
— Tommy Lee Jones
As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.'
— Cliff Burton
I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.
— Kevin James
It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.
— Kristen Stewart
I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain,' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine,' 'X Men,' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.
— Hugh Jackman
The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.
— Sid Caesar
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
— Quincy Jones
You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
— Ben Affleck
I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.
— Rob Zombie
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
— Frank Ocean
My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.
— Russell Crowe
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.
— Ellen Barkin
Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.
— Antonio Banderas
I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.
— Lea Michele
I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.
— Joe Jonas
I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.
— Jason Reitman
For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.
— Lorene Scafaria
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
— Sam Neill
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
— Daniel H. Wilson
I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.
— Rutger Hauer
I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.
— Michael Biehn
I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
— Nathan Fillion
When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
— Zach Galifianakis
I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends and family. I try to spend time with the ones that I love and work as hard as possible.
— Justin Bartha
Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.
— Justin Bartha
I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.
— Sia
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.
— Michio Kaku
I adore watching movies movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time. 
— Priyanka Chopra
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
— Orson Welles
I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.
— Edward Witten
I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
— Eddie Murphy
I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you. 
— Graydon Carter
I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'
— John C. Reilly
In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons.
— Salman Khan
I don't miss acting. I don't even see movies. I don't see plays. I don't watch television.
— Charles Grodin
I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.
— Ellen Greene
The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
— Peter Capaldi
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.
— Alan Dershowitz
My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.
— Matt Ross
I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
— George Lucas
I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.
— Nicolas Cage
During the off-season, I go to the movies almost every day.
— Derek Jeter
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life... I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
— Juliette Binoche
I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.
— Sean Penn
People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.
— James Caan
I'm such a fan girl when it comes to movies, TV and sci-fi, sometimes I can't believe I actually get to be in them.
— Rebecca Mader
I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear I can't lie. 
— David Beckham
I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.
— Melissa Benoist
I think people are sick of trends changing every six months - not because we're tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.
— Tom Ford
I've wanted recognition I wanted success I wanted appreciation I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor. 
— Vidya Balan
I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
— Kajol
'The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even come out. It was one of the first movies I'd seen like that. I didn't even realize it was a damn movie!
— Corey Taylor
I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.
— Eazy-E
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.
— Denis Villeneuve
It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.
— Gerard Butler
A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.
— Grant Show
Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies.
— Virginia Postrel
I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.
— Drew Goddard
When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.
— Jose Andres
I graduated from public high school. I went to the prom. I did it all. But I also worked on 30-million dollar movies with roller coasters and Michelle Pfeiffer. It's been a very interesting and blessed life for sure.
— Ryan Merriman
I guess rebelliousness has been explored in many movies, but what about the smart kids' rebellion? Not just the motorcycle jackets and that kind of rebellion; it's the dorky kid - what could he do?
— Portia Doubleday
The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
— Nathan Lane
The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.
— Steven Bochco
One of my favorite movies is 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.'
— Liam Hemsworth
I'm a single parent, and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.
— Rick Moranis
Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies.
— Ridley Scott
I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.
— James Gray
I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.
— Joshua Cohen
The idea that somebody would go to my YouTube channel and want to watch movies and then be subjected to some terrible car commercial - I don't like that.
— Casey Neistat
I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.
— Jon Favreau
Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.
— Johnny Depp
When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.
— Zach Johnson
I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
— Patricia Riggen
Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life?
— Richard Corliss
When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.
— Quentin Tarantino
None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
— Quentin Tarantino
My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
— Quentin Tarantino
I took a break from horror I made three ghost movies back-to-back-to-back. 
— James Wan
One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original 'Road Warrior.' And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: 'The Terminator' and 'Die Hard' and, of course, all of the 'Star Wars' movies.
— Aisha Tyler
I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.
— Rose Kennedy
I was such a big 'Dirty Dozen,' 'Where Eagles Dare,' 'A Bridge Too Far' - all those kinds of movies I loved.
— Duncan Jones
Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. There's more character development. There's more stuff to pick from.
— Mike Binder
I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.
— Paul Walker
We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.
— Paul Walker
My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.
— Jeff Bridges
I don't want to be knocked out. But the contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.
— Peter Berg
There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.
— Felicity Jones
I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.
— Peter Falk
I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
— Damien Chazelle
'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.
— Elvis Mitchell
The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those squirm-inducing moments in comedy that produce enough discomfort that, at points, what we're watching is half a heartbeat away from a horror film.
— Elvis Mitchell
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.
— Alden Ehrenreich
As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
— Campbell Brown
I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
— Felicity Jones
Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him.
— Laura Dern
We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.
— Edgar Wright
I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doing all sorts of things.
— Jonathan Levine
The truth is that I didn't start out making commercial movies. My films were not film festival movies with the possible exception slightly of 'Super,' but I was able to nurture my gifts through the works of artists making lower budget films that needed a place and an outlet.
— James Gunn
I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch movies, don't we? But even though I grew up in Los Angeles, my family was entirely unconnected with the movie industry, and I never truly believed that it would one day be my fate.
— Lisa Lutz
I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.
— Shia LaBeouf
I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.
— Donald Glover
I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I didn't have any friends yet. I would force my sister to make these movies with me - which became my YouTube channel.
— Dylan O'Brien
We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.
— Michael Bay
I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.
— James Spader
It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at.
— Denzel Washington
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars' fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it was part of my childhood.
— Jared Padalecki
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).
— Tig Notaro
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
— Roger Ebert
I hate horror movies, with a passion.
— Katee Sackhoff
I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood.
— John Williams
There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.
— Eddie Murphy
My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.
— Michael Douglas
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
— Ira Glass
I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. When they arrived here, the only way to keep dreaming was to make movies. Film was the fourth dimension.
— Denis Villeneuve
Spider-Man has always been a huge part of my life. I love the movies. I love the comics. And I always just wanted to be Spider-Man.
— Tom Holland
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
— Henry Rollins
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
— Bill Gates
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
— Marilyn Monroe
Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
— Dolly Parton
My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
— Dolly Parton
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
— Salman Rushdie
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
— Salman Rushdie
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
— Salman Rushdie
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'
— Douglas Coupland
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
— Tom Stoppard
Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.
— Marianne Williamson
You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
— Marco Rubio
When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
— Michael Moore
I think movies are too long.
— Michael Moore
Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.
— Michael Moore
Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Movies are like magic tricks.
— Jeff Bridges
So many things have to come together to get a creatively successful and financially successful film. Sometimes you'll have a movie that you're very proud of, and you think it transcended all of your expectations, but it doesn't come out at the right time. I have done movies that have never been released. That can be depressing.
— Jeff Bridges
Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.
— Jeff Bridges
Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
— Jeff Bridges
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,' to 'The Butler,' to 'The Best Man,' to 'Ride Along,' to even 'Think Like a Man' from last year - these movies are just good movies.
— Kevin Hart
I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.
— Marilyn Manson
Watching movies is my one distraction.
— Marilyn Manson
Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all.
— Kevin Spacey
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
— Will Rogers
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
— Will Rogers
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
— Will Rogers
For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.
— James Wan
As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.
— James Wan
We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.
— James Wan
All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.
— James Wan
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
— Steven Spielberg
Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.
— Steven Spielberg
I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
— Steven Spielberg
It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.
— Steven Spielberg
A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
— Ridley Scott
One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.
— Ridley Scott
I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.
— Ridley Scott
When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they're going to the store and they've got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves, I'm offended that I can't go to the store like that.
— Blake Lively
When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
— Al Franken
A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.
— Jason Statham
I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.
— Nicolas Cage
I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
— Nicolas Cage
I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'
— Nicolas Cage
I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.
— Nicolas Cage
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
— Nicolas Cage
I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.
— Nicolas Cage
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
— Zooey Deschanel
I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.
— Megan Fox
I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.
— Sylvester Stallone
Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.'
— Sandra Bullock
I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I'm also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what's in my mind.
— Charli XCX
I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.
— Ryan Gosling
In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.
— Viggo Mortensen
The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character. If we'd done a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it's just going to break your heart.
— Denis Leary
When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.
— Denis Leary
You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'
— John Lasseter
I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.
— Sia
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
— Adam McKay
'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me. But the one that made me want to make movies was 'The Tales of Hoffman.' That's my favorite film of all time. It's a fantasy film. It's an opera. I never get tired of it.
— George A. Romero
Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.
— Alec Baldwin
The thing that runs through the British film industry even today is a lot of unsung movies are financially the bigger ones. Even though they weren't always the greatest of movies, something in them was very potent which people loved.
— Peter Capaldi
The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.'
— Elvis Mitchell
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system - his focus fried away unnecessary calories.
— Elvis Mitchell
'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
— Laura Dern
Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.
— Virginia Postrel
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
— Roger Ebert
I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.
— Brad Pitt
Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.
— Sydney Pollack
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
— Sydney Pollack
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
— Sydney Pollack
Sometimes I do movies that aren't any good, or sometimes I might not be any good in them, or sometimes they don't do very well.
— Michael Keaton