882 private quotes tagged movies

“You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.” — Kevin Smith

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“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

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“One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.” — Steven Seagal

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“People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.” — Robert Carlyle

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“I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.” — Tommy Lee Jones

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“It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.” — Kevin Smith

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“It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?” — Taylor Lautner

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“I like high impact movies.” — Kathryn Bigelow

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“I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.” — Jodie Foster

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“I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.” — Kevin Bacon

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“I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.” — Kevin Bacon

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“I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.” — Kevin Bacon

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“I've seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it.” — Seth Rogen

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“I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.” — Seth Rogen

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“In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.” — Kevin Smith

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“I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.” — Joss Whedon

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“If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.” — Ethan Hawke

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“I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.” — Jonah Hill

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“For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.” — Lynda Barry

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“I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.” — Jet Li

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“Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.” — Jonah Hill

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“Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.” — Denis Leary

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“I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters.” — Ethan Hawke

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“I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.” — Emmanuelle Beart

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“I'm sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do 'Superbad 2' than 'Moneyball.' But I would love to do movies like 'Superbad' and movies like 'Moneyball.'” — Jonah Hill

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