“It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.”
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 love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.”
“It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.”
“My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.”
“Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.”
“The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.”
“There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.”
“I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.”
“Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.”
“If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.”
“I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.”
“I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.”
“I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.”
“The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.”
“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”
“I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.”
“I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.”