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'Superbad' and 'Remember the Titans' - two movies I can watch over and over again. I watch 'Superbad' whenever I need to laugh. — Carl Hagelin

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work. — Walter Hill

I find making trailers really frustrating, because sometimes the worst trailers are for the best movies. — Rob Zombie

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it. — Luke Evans

The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people. — Ivan Sutherland

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies. — Bette Davis

I get terrible reviews, but there are people who like to see me in the movies, I guess. — Sandra Dee

That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something. — Rian Johnson

Movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion. — Jennifer Stone

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music. — Moby

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies. — Charlie Kaufman

I think the movies that don't try to please people are movies that you respect more in the end. — Michael Angarano

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. — Gary Oldman

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun. — Charlie Kaufman

There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. — Jandy Nelson

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies. — Whoopi Goldberg

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like. — Rachel McAdams

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too. — Greg Kinnear

The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place. — Allison Williams

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen. — Denis Leary

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror. — Kirk Hammett

You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it. — Josh Hamilton

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party. — Lee Daniels

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories. — Seth Shostak

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore. — Lorene Scafaria

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours. — Ewan McGregor

Summer flings always seemed amazing in movies, though that might be because the leading man did not ever call his romantic interest dude. — Thomm Quackenbush

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. — Ken Thompson

Do you think he's the murderer?"
"It's worse than that
he's an actor! — Julian Fellowes

People grew up on the animated movie. Bill Condon is Bill Condon. And nobody does those movies better than Disney does. — Todd Lieberman

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show. — James Stewart

The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies. — Sylvester Stallone

I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies. — D. A. Pennebaker

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

Now is the time to ask yourself, what you believe. — Rob MacGregor

I like making mini-movies rather than just three-minute, place-the-champagne-here-for-sponsorship videos. — Killer Mike

The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste. — Irwin Winkler

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. — Natalie Portman

I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist. — Felipe Esparza

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place. — Joe Mantegna

I collect movies. So I have all those in binders. I don't have the DVDs out. I put them in binders. — Bill Hader

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies. — Andy Behrman

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles. — Jan De Bont

People don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative. — Chester Elijah Branch

Yeah, I mean, I think I'm obsessed with tone in the movies. Tone has always been the main thing that I go after with a movie. — Zack Snyder

Embrace the probability of your imminent death ... and know there is nothing i can do to save you. — Suzanne Collins

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

That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor. — David Gilmour

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping. — Alan Alda

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers. — Nicolas Winding Refn

It is a strange, repetitive feature of action movies that the infuriating go-by-the-rules boss of the maverick hero is almost invariably Black.) — David Graeber

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City. — Lea Thompson

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial. — Will Rogers

I think it went Twilight, Welcome to the Rileys, New Moon, Runaways, then Eclipse, so it was like one of those movies between each Twilight movie. — Kristen Stewart

I probably haven't even seen ten of the films I've done. I don't get a joy out of it, and I don't go to the movies. — Robert Sean Leonard

I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights. — James McAvoy

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list. — Tracy Letts

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about. — Ian McKellen

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up. — Irena A. Hoffman

I started watching movies my grandpa did, and I saw what an impact they made on the world. That's when I said, 'Hey, I want to do that too.' — Steven R. McQueen

I don't worry about overexposure [in work], I think it's important just to go in, and think about quality work and try to put the best movies out. — Dwayne Johnson

'Colors' is pretty good. It takes you inside the cop car bit. I like reality myself. I like reality-based kind of movies. — David Ayer

In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it. — Julianne Moore

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. — David Fincher

We could debate whether movies reflect or create the reality. It's clear to me they do both. — Alex Tizon

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp

'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time. — Laura Dern

The best movies are simple. — Shia Labeouf

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' — Sam Rockwell

Our reality is the thoughts and dramas we see in our mental movies. We — Tara Brach

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action. — Christopher Lambert

I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things. — Wesley Morris

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion. — Pauline Kael

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well. — Guy Pearce

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective. — Queen Latifah

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another. — Michael Haneke

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim. — Alfred Hitchcock

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way. — James Mangold

Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies? — Don DeLillo

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright. — Catherine Keener

One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up. — Mike Birbiglia

If Wolf Blitzer goes through his entire career on air without crying, I think that'll be the time to greenlight the remake of 'Never Cry Wolf. — Gregor Collins

I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff. — Meaghan Rath

I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies. — Dennis Quaid

Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies. — Ira Sachs

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie. — Roger Ebert

I think that the movies I do are the ones that I really like the least. I don't like watching them because of that problem. — Casey Affleck

The hardest part about making movies is staying the exact same weight every day and looking the same. — Justin Timberlake

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind. — Gene Siskel

Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise. — P. J. Soles

My kids are old enough now that they can watch that, but I like to do the family movies. — Elizabeth Perkins

I've always loved those movies where somebody really wants something, and then the thing they want is right in front of them. — John Krasinski

I want epic love, like you see in the movies. I want it so desperately that it fills my heart when I even think about the possibility of it. — L. H. Cosway

I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies. — Joe Manganiello

Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy. — Miles Teller

I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York. — Chris Eigeman

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring. — Pierce Brosnan

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee. — Salman Rushdie