Movies Quotes
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I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.
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I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
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I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.
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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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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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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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I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.
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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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I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.
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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
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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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I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.
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I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
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When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.
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There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.
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I have used movies to go to sleep at night. You flip from channel to channel to channel and see just enough to make your brain mushy and go to sleep.
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Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.
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Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.
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My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies.
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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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I like to imagine the iPod as the soundtrack to people's lives. It makes ordinary life a bit more like the movies.
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I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
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In the '50s, audiences accepted a level of artifice that the audiences in 1966 would chuckle at. And the audiences of 1978 would chuckle at what the audience of 1966 said was okay, too. The trick is to try to be way ahead of that curve, so they're not chuckling at your movies 20 years down the line.
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Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.
