Quotes about movie
movie new-york crazy
My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that). Lynda Obst
movie hollywood youth
[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business. Lynda Obst
movie rooms stills
with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business? Lynda Obst
movie art people
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
movie independent united-states
It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies. Gael Garcia Bernal
movie pleasure happenings
It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening. Fred Willard
movies
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. John Wayne
movie fun having-fun
I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again. Heath Ledger
movie simple sneak-in
I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff. Justin Timberlake
movie stars personality
Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star. Katharine Hepburn
movie christmas angel
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. Karolyn Grimes
movie men actors
The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man. Leigh Steinberg
movie actors rehearsal
You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. John Malkovich
movie mother baby
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking. John Lasseter
movie real thinking
I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that? John Lasseter
movie trust-no-one actors
Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.' John Lasseter
movie film boat
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it. Francois Truffaut
movie new-york boxing
New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something. John Cusack
movies-in-general oxygen tents
The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen. John Cusack
movie nice reading
If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded. John Cusack
movie faces actors
I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that. John Cusack
movie independent littles
We call that Sean's little independent movie. Patty Duke
movie believe care
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. Pauline Kael
movie mean people
We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images. Pauline Kael
movie art long
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored. Pauline Kael
movie finals desperation
Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see. Pauline Kael
movie want kind
When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once. Pauline Kael
movie looks actors
This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness. Pauline Kael
movie ifs senses
If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies. Pauline Kael
movie real order
At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us. Pauline Kael
movie colossal
tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic. Pauline Kael
movie believe thug
There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the people who want censorship. But this would deny those of us who don't believe in censorship the use of the only counter-balance: the freedom of the press to say that there's anything conceivably damaging in these films - the freedom to analyze their implications. ... How can people go on talking about the dazzling brilliance of movies and not notice that the directors are sucking up to the thugs in the audience? Pauline Kael
movie art expression
Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons. Pauline Kael