882 private quotes tagged movies

“Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”— Alfred Hitchcock

“I consider myself the end user. I make movies that I would like.”— James Cameron

“I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.”— Zoe Kazan

“There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.”— Will Rogers

“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.”— Audrey Hepburn

“Most of us do not consciously look at movies.”— Roger Ebert

“If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.”— Woody Allen

“No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.”— Christopher Walken

“My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.”— Adam Sandler

“The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.”— Will Rogers

“Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.”— Roger Ebert

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.”— Roger Ebert

“Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.”— Roger Ebert

“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.”— Clive Owen

“Everybody's a filmmaker today.”— John Milius

“There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.”— Clint Eastwood

“I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.”— Lawrence Kasdan

“I'm scared of scary movies.”— Emma Roberts

“When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.”— George A. Romero

“Movies are an expensive business.”— Albert Brooks

“I make movies I want to see.”— Neil LaBute

“Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.”— Edward Norton

“If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.”— Chris Evans

“There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.”— Kiefer Sutherland