“All my movies are achingly personal.”
Movies hold up a mirror to who we are and a window to who we could be. These quotes come from filmmakers, actors, critics, and devoted fans who understand that cinema is not just entertainment — it is how a culture tells its stories.
“I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.”
“All my movies are achingly personal.”
“In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.”
“One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.”
“I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.”
“I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama there's no device, It's just about a human being.”
“Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.”
“My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.”
“Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.”
“I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.”
“I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'”
“The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.”
“My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.”
“The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.”
“I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress.”
“I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.”