All Quotes

Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

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

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

Movies and I just equally avoided each other at certain times in my life, you know?
‐‐ Summer Phoenix

Movies and media really can influence us. A few years ago, my daughter wanted to be a dancer; since Obama came into office, she now wants to be a lawyer and get into politics and maybe even be president.
‐‐ Common

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
‐‐ Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
‐‐ Ranbir Kapoor

Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
‐‐ Ranbir Kapoor

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
‐‐ Charlie Chaplin

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.
‐‐ Terry Hayes

Movies are a voyeuristic experience. You have to make the audience feel like they are peeking through a keyhole. I think of myself as the audience. Then I use light, framing, and motion to create a focal point.
‐‐ Haskell Wexler

Movies are about escape.
‐‐ George A. Romero

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
‐‐ Harvey Fierstein

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
‐‐ Richard King

Movies are an editor's medium.
‐‐ Stephen Root

Movies are an expensive business.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.
‐‐ Lloyd Kaufman

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

Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don't make it for any country.
‐‐ Ted Sarandos

Movies are boring. It's like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It's just horrible. Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it's 18 hours of doing not a thing.
‐‐ Ron White

Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, 'I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this.'
‐‐ Casey Affleck

Movies are different from real life.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

Movies are full of leading men, most of whom aren't working. It's much harder to find a good villain.
‐‐ Lee Van Cleef

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.
‐‐ Robin Tunney

Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

Movies are great, TV is great.
‐‐ Jeremy Sumpter

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.
‐‐ Robert De Niro

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
‐‐ Eric Johnston

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.
‐‐ Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are just ridiculously expensive.
‐‐ Anthony Michael Hall

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
‐‐ Tim Burton

Movies are like magic tricks.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.
‐‐ Roman Coppola

Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.
‐‐ Frank Pierson

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
‐‐ Richard Pryor

Movies are movies, television is television.
‐‐ Dirk Benedict

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.
‐‐ Tina Turner

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

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

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.
‐‐ Louis Leterrier

Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can't be done.
‐‐ Paul Auster

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

Movies are romantic fantasies.
‐‐ Ira Sachs