Movies Quotes

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

I cry at movies.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

I don't direct movies for a living.

I've been awfully busy, and I haven't gone to many movies.

But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do.

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.