Movie Quotes · Page 172

There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.

— Damien Chazelle

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in…

— Dolly Parton

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and…

— Denis Leary

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving…

— David Mamet

If the audience, in minute 50, is thinking about the way a movie is shot, there's a problem. I want it to…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I always try to choose material that I would want to go and see. I don't choose movies anymore to be in…

— Isla Fisher

That awkward moment when you're watching an 'R' rated, romance movie with your parents.

— Anonymous

I feel like I could carry a movie or a show, and I'll mess up here and there, and I'll learn from…

— Constance Wu

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful…

— John Lasseter

There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the…

— Reginald Hudlin

People tend to think that if someone is a movie star, that automatically everything is easier and there is less pressure. But…

— Garrett Clayton

In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try…

— Alan Taylor

In the Woodstock movie, you see Justin, my son, who is now a filmmaker, being carried off by my wife at the…

— Bill Kreutzmann

My parents, they never go see anything - but when the movie came out, they went to every theater in L.A. that…

— Greta Lee

I passed on American Pie. When the actors were getting $1 million offers after the movie came out, I was saying I…

— Seth Green

When there's a great horror movie, people are like, 'Horror's back!' And when there's a series of not so good ones, 'Horror's…

— Jason Blum

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

— Alexandre Aja

I just want to be able to make a movie that takes some chances. I don't just want to do something that…

— George Nolfi

How about a good comedy? 'Raising Arizona.' Remains the funniest movie I've ever seen in my life.

— Lee Unkrich

When I'm making a big movie, I miss and appreciate all the subtleties that come with making a smaller film that is…

— James Wan

I don't think I've made good movies. I've just made some movies more disgusting than others.

— Jesus Franco

I've done a lot of movies, but none of them that have blown up the way that 'Divergent' did.

— Johnny Simmons

I want to see movies that explore different forms and new styles of dance, and also those that revive the old.

— Remo D'Souza

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple…

— Albert Brooks

I like it when a movie scares the s - t out of me. That, for me, is just the best.

— Lea Michele

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

— Joe Eszterhas

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke…

— Jason Reitman

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

— Jack Lemmon

It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's…

— Gaby Hoffmann

If Kim Jong Un and his henchmen were upset before, wait till they see the movie we're going to make,

— Larry Flynt

Let me put it this way: If you're sitting in a movie and you're watching me, and you say, 'Isn't that Michael…

— Michael Caine

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement,

— Barry Eisler

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in…

— Noah Baumbach

I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies.…

— David Hockney

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why…

— Benicio Del Toro

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

— Ryan Reynolds

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so…

— Joseph Kosinski

As a movie lover you make movies that you would want to see, and I think that's really important.

— Fred Hechinger

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called…

— Steve Antin

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

— Bruce Greenwood