Movies Quotes
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I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.
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There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around.
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Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
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I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.
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I gravitate much more toward realism, realism in the work that I do, but magical realism got me hooked on film. I think it was my first time realizing that there was something besides popcorn movies.
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There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.
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My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Fargo.'
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.
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I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
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Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
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My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.
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Mike Judge usually receives underwhelming acclaim for his movies when they come out; it takes a while for people to catch up.
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I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.
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My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.
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Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.
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You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.
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The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies of all time.
