Movie Quotes · Page 250

I left acting school really hoping that I could be on a television show of some sort, working in movies in Hollywood.

— Franchesca Ramsey

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots…

— Ryan Reynolds

People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.

— M. Night Shyamalan

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

— J. J. Abrams

I think, the first movie I saw that made me go, 'How did they do that?' was 'Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.'

— Bobcat Goldthwait

From Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to Google and Facebook, many of America's greatest entrepreneurs, musicians, movie directors and novelists are world…

— Gavin Esler

Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I…

— Adrian Lyne

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.

— Tucker Max

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just…

— Roger Ebert

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal…

— Lionel Barrymore

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears…

— Greta Thunburg

don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I…

— Zack Snyder

I like the idea of a TV show. You take time to get to know your characters. You can introduce a lot…

— Louis Leterrier

Audiences have grown to equate being startled with being scared, and will complain that a movie 'isn't scary enough' if it doesn't…

— Mike Flanagan

You know, sometimes I see a movie that is two people in a house, and I walk away from it thinking, God,…

— Julio Torres

It wasn't surprising to me because I've had the conversation with him personally, but Will Smith is more interesting a guy that…

— Neal Brennan

People shoot 2D movies and convert them and I never think they're as good. 3D is really a scientific process of laying…

— Carl Mazzocone

I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant.

— Clint Eastwood

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes,…

— Abel Ferrara

North America makes a ton of movies and there's a ton of movies that are exceptional.

— Joel Edgerton

You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

— Adam McKay

We live in a world where in the movie you can disembowel someone in a youth hostel in Romania, but you can't…

— Seth Rogen

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

— Harvey Weinstein

There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie.

— Sydney Pollack

If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.

— Zooey Deschanel

Action movies live and die by the story that you're trying to tell. It's hard. It's very difficult to do an action…

— Daniel Craig

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

— Tommy Lee Jones

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm…

— Viggo Mortensen

You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He…

— David Zucker

I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a…

— Susannah Cahalan

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

— Beeban Kidron

I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

— Fred Durst

I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things. I don't like superhero things, I like…

— Will Gluck

My biggest dream is to be able to be in a movie or some great TV show where I get to dance,…

— Haley Lu Richardson

I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they…

— Orlando Bloom

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

— Rebecca Traister

It's all about having fun and shooting something that you like. Where it goes afterwards is up to the movie gods.

— Devon Bostick

The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie.

— Melvin Van Peebles

You can't get much done by yourself. Speaking as someone who made a movie - and it took hundreds of people to…

— Boots Riley