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I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were. — Elvis Presley

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was. — Tobin Bell

I don't get the action ... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun. — Laila Ali

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways. — David Mamet

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival. — Pat Conroy

I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be
great. — Joan Chen

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. — Bret Easton Ellis

Dreams were the first movies. — Marty Rubin

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. — Bill Condon

One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is. — Antoine Fuqua

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. — John Wayne

I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school. — Michelle Pfeiffer

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me. — Adam Brody

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film. — Brit Marling

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave. — Burt Reynolds

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. — Francis Ford Coppola

I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world. — Lee Daniels

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind. — Whoopi Goldberg

The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films. — Michael Douglas

If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million. — Peter Stormare

First thought? Romance movies were bad for her psyche. — Kelly Moran

For my money, the movies of the '70s were just amazing. — Amy Heckerling

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. — Mike Myers

Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors. — Benjamin Cheever

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.' — Peter Weir

I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were! — Pia Zadora

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have. — Robert Osborne

My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now. — Steven Soderbergh

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment. — Patrick Lussier

The women in my family were hardworking matriarchs. But the stories I saw on TV and movies and even in many books said they were anomalies — Kameron Hurley

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. — Mary Schmich

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then. — Carter Burwell

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it. — Mark Hamill

Red pill or blue pill? If only it were that simple. You've been watching the wrong movies. — H.M. Forester

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were. — Donal Logue

The movies were custard compared to politics. — Nancy Reagan

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014. — Theophilus London

When it came to portraying couples who never directly connected, the Newmans were the Olympic gold champions — Jeanine Basinger

We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading. — Ernest Cline

I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns. — Terry Teachout

In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them. — Michel Gondry

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be? — Peter Jackson

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful. — Christina Ricci

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good. — Chevy Chase

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them. — Rita Hayworth

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. — Sam Mendes

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. — Alfred Hitchcock

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy. — Mandy Patinkin

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match. — Clint Eastwood

Troll Wars were like Batman movies: both were repeated at regular intervals, featured expensive hardware, and were broadly predictable. — Jasper Fforde

In-laws were often used as plot devices to drive a happy couple apart, to destroy marital love and trust. — Jeanine Basinger

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios. — Robert Benchley

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

A lot of movies were influenced by 'Logan's Run,' like 'Minority Report'. A lot of films have those elements in them. — Joel Silver

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me. — Chris Tucker

Look, I've done some low-budget movies and I've done some big-budget movies, and the big-budget movies were always kind of disorganized. — John Corbett

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies. — Owen Wilson

Remember when movies were just good or bad, before auteurs, film festivals, and guys from USC who were the first to shoot underwater? — Mort Sahl

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice. — John Waters

I made a conscious choice to turn down some movies that were action-based, so that I could direct Road to Paloma and show that side. — Jason Momoa

I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series. — Victor Garber

Action is my first love. When I first started writing, my favorite movies were 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and 'Aliens', and that sort of thing. — David Leslie Johnson

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed. — Meryl Streep

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste. — Dick Van Dyke

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. — Louis C.K.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season. — George Takei

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence." — Eli Roth

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.' — Henry Louis Gates

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty. — Morgan Brittany

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world. — Theodore Sturgeon

Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less. — Ben Hecht

Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting. — Stephen Metcalf

Movies, they were the thing. Movies took you away. You could count on popcorn and happy endings. — Stephen King

I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there. — Stephen King

All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were. — Chris Squire

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

I was lucky that I made a few movies in a row that people really responded to - not me, particularly, but the films as a whole were appreciated. — Julia Roberts

My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich. — Jerry Hall

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance. — Joss Whedon

It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it. — Natascha McElhone

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

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story. — Ferdie Pacheco

Used to put movies down by saying that they were 'deep on the surface'
meaning that there was nothing underneath. — David Denby

Books were better than movies, — Eric Hobbs

People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway. — John Waters

There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema. — Christine Vachon

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product. — Ben Hecht

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know. — Billy Bob Thornton

There were just things in Disney movies that probably were too scary for kids. — Paul Reubens

I watched all the Saw movies. They were good. But I think Freddie Krueger or Jason might be the best. — Anthony Dirrell

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them. — Ang Lee

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me. — Ray Liotta

The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults. — Colin Trevorrow

In the movies, the child actors were doing real homework to make the scene more realistic. — Mariah Caitlyn

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted. — John Cusack

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. — Alex Winter

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache. — Patton Oswalt

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh. — Rainey Qualley

I was still making movies so it wasnt as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldnt find distributors. — Linda Fiorentino

We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.' — Tahar Rahim