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 have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.”
“We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.”
“I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.”
“In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.”
“Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.”
“I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.”
“Movies are very subjective.”
“Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.”
“I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.”
“Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.”
“Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.”
“If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.”
“I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.”
“Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.”
“There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.”
“I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.”