Movies Quotes

“I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.”

-- Francis Ford Coppola

“I never enjoyed working in a film.”

-- Marlene Dietrich

“I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.”

-- Jonah Hill

“I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.”

-- Oliver Stone

“People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.”

-- Morgan Freeman

“Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.”

-- Samuel Goldwyn

“It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.”

-- Al Pacino

“I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.”

-- Christopher Walken

“How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.”

-- Gary Oldman

“The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.”

-- M. Night Shyamalan