Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Hardwick

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

Antonio Banderas

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

Antonio Banderas

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

Barbara Deming

It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.

Bruce Sterling

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

Robert Englund

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

She has seen every Herbie movie over and over again.

Mary Byrne

She and her sisters made movies when they were little.

Bruce Vilanch

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

Brett Ratner

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

This rally is the perfect storm. It's surreal, it's like watching a movie.

Golshifteh Farahani

The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.

We used to watch a lot of movies,

Ben Hecht

I discovered early in my movie work that a movies never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

Eleanora Duse

If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!

Edward Zwick

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

Aaron Eckhart

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

Robin Wright

Sean's movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

Isabelle Huppert

She's really quite talented, ... It was like she had been making movies all her life. There was no naivety or clumsiness.

David Chase

I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.

Rebel Wilson

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

Viggo Mortensen

In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

Nicole Holofcener

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

Leland Orser

Some of the big movies, you get checks for a long, long time.

Steven Seagal

All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio, and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do.

Louis Leterrier

I like the idea of a TV show. You take time to get to know your characters. You can introduce a lot of characters. You don't need your three-action set pieces that you usually need for movies.

Louis Leterrier

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

Susanne Bier

I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.

Harvey Fierstein

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Robbie Coltrane

I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there.

Warren Spector

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

Avan Jogia

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

Jami Gertz

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.