Movie Quotes

It comes with age. I can't watch movies that are inhumane.

Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.

I really have problems with horror movies. I don't watch them. It's a feeling I don't want to have in cinema. I'm too reactive. It's too draining to watch that kind of movie.

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.

The physical stuff of a movie is difficult. It's one of those things where it's just harder than it looks.

As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.

I'd love to go out on a Saturday night with my friends and watch a movie, but that happens really like once a year or a couple of times.

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".

When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.

My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie."

It's pretty rare that I watch a movie now without seeing the script in a way that I hate, where I can see the stage directions and the choices that the actors are making.

When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.

I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.

I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.

I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies with vampires in them.

Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

Do people think I'm cool because I was in a movie when I was a child? No. Well, maybe a little bit more than they used to. There's definitely a nostalgia factor.

The action movie, the thriller and the drama all have safety nets under them. But not the horror film. The horror film can sink to an abyss far darker than the imagination can ever reach.

A movie about the past is not the same as the past.

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'

I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.

I like to be unhinged; I like to be unpredictable. I like to make people worry that worse things can happen whenever I go out to a restaurant or act in a movie.

As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5.1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.

Ever since I became a movie star,I've been really weird.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

It's really fun working on this Marvel movie [ Spiderman]. The essentials of Aunt May are that she's helped raise Spiderman and she's his moral compass.

When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.

My days are straight out of the movie Groundhog Day.

For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel pretty confident that we can make a movie work.

I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.

This is the fourth movie that I've done with this set of director-writers and I've learned to trust them at this point, because actually I started on Lego before they did.