882 private quotes tagged movies

“I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.” — Emily Mortimer

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“I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.” — Ernie Harwell

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“I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.” — Chris Evans

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“I was always attracted to science fiction movies.” — Tina Turner

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“In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.” — Daniel H. Wilson

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“People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?” — Ai Weiwei

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“In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.” — Wallace Shawn

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“Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.” — Albert Brooks

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“I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.” — Stephenie Meyer

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“I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.” — Samuel L. Jackson

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“I like movies about failing.” — Albert Brooks

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“John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.” — Carter Burwell

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“I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.” — Andy Murray

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“I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'” — Samuel L. Jackson

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“Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.” — Sean Penn

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“All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.” — Samuel L. Jackson

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“I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.” — Samuel L. Jackson

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“People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.” — Samuel L. Jackson

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“Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.” — Jonah Hill

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“Movies are movies, television is television.” — Dirk Benedict

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“A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.” — Errol Morris

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“For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.” — David Fincher

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“I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.” — Joe Jonas

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“My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'” — Sally Field

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“What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'” — Chris Evans

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