Movies Quotes

“Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.”

-- Maurice Sendak

“The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.”

-- Christina Ricci

“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”

-- Tim Burton

“The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.”

-- Helen Hunt

“I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.”

-- Jason Reitman

“The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.”

-- Billy Joel

“I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.”

-- Leonardo DiCaprio

“I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.”

-- Mary-Kate Olsen

“I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.”

-- Steve Guttenberg

“In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.”

-- Ang Lee