Movie Quotes · Page 186

Making movies is just as much of a game. They say Hollywood is like high school with money.

— Kristen Stewart

Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure,…

— Nicolas Roeg

I never know when I'll find myself jumping out of a helicopter or something. It's like we're making a new action movie…

— Lucas Till

I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type…

— Ed O'Neill

Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me…

— Ti West

My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.

— John G. Avildsen

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

— Roger Ebert

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

— Lee Unkrich

I feel like every movie has been wish fulfillment. For The Heat, I love Lethal Weapon. I watch it over and over…

— Katie Dippold

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it…

— Matthew Quick

What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that…

— David Fincher

Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I…

— Morgan Fairchild

Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after…

— Tao Lin

I've been training with my mixed martial arts guy as much as I can when I'm back in L.A., so if I…

— Kellan Lutz

When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school.…

— Meaghan Rath

The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie…

— Morgan Freeman

When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

— Tracy Letts

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with…

— Jane Seymour

I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of…

— Sean Penn

'Beatriz' has been a slow burn; people are still finding the movie. It's actually similar to the first few years of 'Friday…

— Connie Britton

The dream was always to act: I want to do a scary movie, I want to do serious stuff.

— Megan Stalter

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it…

— James Gray

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

— R. Kelly

“Not a movie to take your children to, nothing to show your ma: the little gougings, the wreck of the way they…

— Noy Holland

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

— Katie Chang

Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with…

— Joe Viterelli

I need some more followers! I need to get my stats up to a million so I can make any movie with…

— Thomas Middleditch

To get a game show into production is as challenging and as intellectually demanding as it is to write a novel or…

— Steven Knight

The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie.

— David Leitch

I love telling stories. But I believe that nobody could teach you to direct a movie.

— Rajiv Menon

I'm really glad to have made a movie that way on Superbad, because I learned a lot about what can be done…

— Greg Mottola

I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers,' it can feel like you're doing three movies…

— Michael Bay

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

— Yann Martel

When I was a kid, it wasn't very often that I could go to the movies and see an entire movie carried…

— Aimee Garcia

Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this…

— Hayao Miyazaki

The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep.

— Elvis Mitchell

When the movie 'Selena' came out, I got really obsessed with her, and my mom and I went and saw it.

— Kirstin Maldonado

We grew up in the country, without much access to film. The fact that we didn't have any real relationship to movies…

— Alice Rohrwacher

Remember to love your parents...We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.

— Anonymous

I never expect anything; I just go make a movie. I do the best I can, and whatever happens, happens.

— Steve Zahn