Movies Quotes
“For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.”
“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?”
-- Samuel Goldwyn
“It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.”
-- Jon Landau
“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.”
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.”
-- Kevin Bacon
“I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.”
-- Paul Thomas Anderson
“Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.”
-- George A. Romero