Movies Quotes
“I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.”
“Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.”
-- John Cusack
“I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.”
-- Ang Lee
“I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.”
-- Famke Janssen
“Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.”
-- Martin Scorsese
“When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.”
-- Francis Ford Coppola
“The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.”
-- Joel Silver