Movies Quotes

When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least, not until the producers or the public tell you to.

The only good thing about books is that they can be adapted into films.

I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see 'hits,' and discourage exploration.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

'It will obliterate your senses!' reports David Gillin, who obviously writes autobiographically.

No good film is too long and no bad film is short enough.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.

You know what your problem is? It's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will--the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.

I wrote a novel this year called <b>Shop Girl</b>, and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, &#34;If you think you're going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending...that's going to cost you.

Film lovers are sick people.

The movie's director is the pilot. It's his vision. For an actor, the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't want to fly with the director, don't get on the plane.

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a filmmaker an army.

We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.

After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognise me.