Movies Quotes

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

David Mamet

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Jean Cocteau

It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.

Jamie Bell

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

Kristen Stewart

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

Joaquin Phoenix

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Jodie Foster

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Stanley Kubrick

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Charlie Kaufman

We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.

Harvey Weinstein

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

Seth Rogen

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

Lana Parrilla

I really like children to watch my movies.

Jackie Chan

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

Matt Damon

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Chris Evans

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

Peter Jackson

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

Helen Hunt

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

Famke Janssen