882 private quotes tagged movies

“If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers.”— Bradley Cooper

“You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.”— Hank Azaria

“I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.”— Justin Cronin

“I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.”— Yann Martel

“I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.”— Johnny Knoxville

“I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.”— Mira Nair

“I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.”— Mary-Kate Olsen

“We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.”— Reed Hastings

“Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.”— Yann Martel

“Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.”— Laura Dern

“Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.”— James Broughton

“I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.”— Zoe Kazan

“The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.”— Alex Winter

“I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.”— Ivan Reitman

“I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.”— Alex Winter

“James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.”— Joe Morton

“I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.”— Paul Thomas Anderson

“I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.”— Paul Thomas Anderson

“The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.”— Alex Winter

“I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.”— Kat Dennings

“What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.”— Jill Clayburgh

“Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.”— Ivan Reitman

“I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.”— Zoe Kazan

“I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.”— Paul Thomas Anderson

“I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.”— Zoe Kazan