Movies Quotes

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.

I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies.

One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.

It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing.

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.

My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.

Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.