Category: Quotes About Movies

I've choreographed all of my movies. -Jackie Chan

I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces. -Tommy Lee Jones

I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what…

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. -M. Night Shyamalan

I've done many different movies in many different contexts. -Antonio Banderas

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain. -Peter Mullan

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster. -J. J. Abrams

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies. -Christopher Walken

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped. -Janeane Garofalo

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward. -Helen Hunt

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face. -Diane Kruger

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe. -Sharon Stone

'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that. -Gary Ross

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. -Sam Mendes

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you. -Jason Reitman

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. -Gary Oldman

I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant. -Mark Ruffalo

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive. -Daniel Craig

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron. -Christian Bale

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV. -Christopher Walken

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy. -Bjork