Movies Quotes
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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Horror movies can be - I don't wanna say not real, but so over-the-top: you can get scared 'cos things are loud and in-your-face, but these are real emotions that I'm using.
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As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
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I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
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When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Well all kinds of movies that you wouldn't expect that I'd want to do, both bigger scale and smaller scale than the ones I've done.
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I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
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I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.
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I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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Hollywood is a roulette wheel. Each project dictates what's going to happen for you next, and it doesn't really matter that your project is critically acclaimed or won awards or has fans worldwide. It's a matter of how many movie tickets and DVDs and on-demand movies that you sell.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
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If you go out and see a lot of movies in a given year, it's really hard to come up with a top ten, because you saw a lot of stuff that you liked. A top 20 is easier. You probably get one masterpiece a year, and I don't think you should expect more than one masterpiece a year, except in a really great year.
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If I met Jack Nicholson, I would probably get a little flustered. Not going to lie. I've watched his movies since I was so young. Such a fan.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
