Quotes About Movies and Film By Directors, Actors And Other Persons

by allinspiration.com

“My nominee for Best Picture of the year – maybe the best picture ever, because it’s essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies – is Christian Marclay’s endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece ‘The Clock’.”
– Jerry Saltz

“Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.”
– Jet Li

“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”
– Jim Morrison

“If people are constantly reading about you, and you’re overexposed, they’ve got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it’s not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.”
– John Cusack

“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.”
– John Hughes

“I love movies that make me cry, because they’re tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?”
– John Lasseter

“It couldn’t sound like a dog, because K9 isn’t a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.”
– John Leeson

“I like very much to do movies.”
– John Malkovich

“You can’t work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.”
– John Malkovich

“I like to direct movies, but I don’t like to goof around for eight years talking about it.”
– John Malkovich

“Quite often – a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.”
– John Malkovich

“Everybody’s a filmmaker today.”
– John Milius

“Am I a romantic? I’ve seen ‘Wuthering Heights’ ten times. I’m a romantic.”
– Johnny Depp

“Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.”
– Johnny Depp

“I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.”
– Julia Roberts

“My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”
– Kathryn Bigelow

“Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren’t allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn’t really know anything different. That’s how I was raised.”
– Katy Perry

“I’m obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.”
– Kevin Bacon

“I’ve had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that’s OK with me. I don’t feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?”
– Kevin Costner

“I don’t want to make movies for kids, and I don’t want to make movies for adults either.”
– Kristen Stewart

“Sure, ‘Twilight’ is really huge right now and everybody’s freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I’m used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.”
– Kristen Stewart

“Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.”
– Liam Neeson

“A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.”
– Louis C. K.

“I don’t like comedy. I like funny things. I don’t like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, ‘Oh Jesus‘.”
– Louis C. K.

“I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.”
– Louis C. K.

“You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, ‘Don’t go in that door!’ because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.”
– Marco Rubio

“Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“I never enjoyed working in a film.”
– Marlene Dietrich

“Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.”
– Martin Scorsese

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