Famous Quotes About movies

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

Movies are about escape.