Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilson Mizner

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Wim Wenders

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Wim Wenders

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Will Rogers

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Zhang Ziyi

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

Will Smith

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

Wayne Rogers

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

Samuel L. Jackson

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

Samuel Goldwyn

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Salma Hayek

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Salma Hayek

For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

Salma Hayek

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

Joss Whedon

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

Katy Perry

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

Rachel True

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

Rachel Stevens

I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

Lina Wertmuller

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

Liam Neeson

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

Liam Neeson

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

Liam Neeson

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

Terri Windling

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Scarlett Johansson

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

Shannon Tweed

Oh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me

Sean Young

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

Neil LaBute

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Neil LaBute

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

Neil LaBute

I make movies I want to see.

Marco Rubio

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

Ryan Gosling

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

Ryan Gosling

I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

Ryan Gosling

I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.

Walt Disney

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Vincent Cassel

Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.