Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Valenti

to tell us what kind of movies to make.

Beth Grant

I can remember before 'Rain Man,' I just couldn't get in on anything, any features. After that and it winning the Oscar - the next year, I co-starred in six movies.

Bruce Feirstein

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

John le Carre

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

Kurt Vonnegut

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

Louis C. K.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

Louis C. K.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

Amy Heckerling

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

Neil Flynn

I wouldn't say I'm a fan of Tarantino, per se, but I like several of his movies very much, probably 'Reservoir Dogs' the most of them.

People are paying a premium to see movies in 3-D, and that's a very big deal. It's never been done before that someone says you have to pay more to see 'Spider-Man' than a romantic comedy.

Michael Lehmann

People always say, 'Why don't you make more movies like 'Heathers'?' And I say, 'I've been trying for 20 years.'

Colin Trevorrow

I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

Bill Sienkiewicz

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

Carrie Underwood

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Bette Davis

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

Bette Davis

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

Bette Davis

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Ashley Tisdale

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

Leonard Maltin

It is as old as the movies themselves.

Melissa Peterman

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

Ridley Scott

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

John Daly

I still say they made that movie after me,

Robert Sean Leonard

I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.

McG

I strive to make movies I would enjoy.

I think I watched a movie about it.

I watched some of the old Peter Sellers movies to pick up some of his nuances and his style of comedy. He is so unique.

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Bette Midler

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

Bette Midler

The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.

Harland Williams

I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.

Halston Sage

'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.

Oscar Isaac

People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.

Ray Manzarek

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.