“I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.”
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.
“The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.”
“I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.”
“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.”
“John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.”
“I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.”
“We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.”
“You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.”
“3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.”
“I've done many different movies in many different contexts.”
“I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.”
“If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.”
“I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.”
“Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.”
“We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those is a $30 pay-per-view option - not from Netflix but from DirecTV and others - of movies that are in the theater.”
“I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.”
“I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.”