Movies Quotes
“With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.”
“When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.”
-- Vin Diesel
“The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.”
-- Joel Silver
“I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.”
-- Don DeLillo
“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.”
-- Quentin Tarantino
“Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.”
-- Haruki Murakami
“I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.”
-- Justin Cronin