Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Wilson

I have a kind of unhealthy obsession with movies.

Bono

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

Bono

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

We used to watch a lot of movies,

Taylor Handley

Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.

Tom Irwin

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

Terry Hayes

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

Tracy Letts

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

Bram Stoker

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

Boris Karloff

It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

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.

Clark Gable

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

Elizabeth Taylor

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

All I do is go to the movies.

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.

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.

Ayn Rand

The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere.

M. Night Shyamalan

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

Joaquin Phoenix

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

John Hughes

The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.

There are a lot of stereotypes from non-Greeks. I think they see movies like 'Animal House' and think it's all parties and poor academics.

Nadine Velazquez

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

Mort Sahl

I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.

Sarah Baker

With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.

Shia LaBeouf

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,