882 private quotes tagged movies

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”— Orson Welles

“I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.”— Richard King

“Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.”— Maurice Sendak

“Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.”— Chuck Palahniuk

“I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.”— Jonah Hill

“Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.”— John Podhoretz

“Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.”— Conrad Hall

“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?”— Samuel Goldwyn

“I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.”— Steven Spielberg

“You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.”— Vin Diesel

“When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.”— Kevin Costner

“When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.”— Al Pacino

“I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.”— Anna Chlumsky

“I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.”— J. J. Abrams

“I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.”— Taylor Lautner

“I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.”— Victoria Justice

“In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.”— John Hench

“I've had nine of my books adapted to film, and almost all were enjoyable. I've been very lucky with Hollywood, and look forward to more movies being adapted. But I don't get involved in that process. I know nothing about making movies and I stay away from it and hope for the best.”— John Grisham

“Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.”— Selma Blair

“The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.”— Lisa Loeb

“With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.”— Patrick Wilson

“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.”— Quentin Tarantino

“There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.”— Mike Mills

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.”— Steve Martin

“The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?”— Orlando Bloom