3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman I’ve kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
3 December 2020 Dean Koontz Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
3 December 2020 Alex Winter I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
3 December 2020 Tony Kushner You don’t go to the movies to do historical research, unless it’s historical research about the movies.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn’t going to be a real parent if I didn’t quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I’d made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.
3 December 2020 Sam Mendes The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
3 December 2020 Joaquin Phoenix I don’t really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn’t really matter to me at all.
3 December 2020 John Cusack It’s like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they’re, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.
3 December 2020 Haruki Murakami 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.
3 December 2020 Arnold Schwarzenegger One of my movies was called ‘True Lies.’ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.
3 December 2020 Jackie Chan I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
3 December 2020 Albert Brooks Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I’ve never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn’t take advantage of a rehearsal process.
3 December 2020 Laura Dern Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.
3 December 2020 Vanessa Hudgens My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I’ll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.
3 December 2020 Kat Dennings I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
3 December 2020 Edward Norton I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
3 December 2020 Russell Crowe I want to make movies that pierce people’s hearts and touch them in some way, even if it’s just for the night while they’re in the cinema in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
3 December 2020 Javier Bardem Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They’re to promote each other’s movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they’ll go to see them. It’s still the same.
3 December 2020 Chris Rock Dude, I didn’t say Jude Law can’t act. I didn’t say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he’s in every movie.
3 December 2020 Robert Rodriguez Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.
3 December 2020 Clint Eastwood This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
3 December 2020 Matt Damon Success is not something I’ve wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that’s true, big-time success. If not, it’s much ado about nothing.
3 December 2020 Matt Damon I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I’m just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.
3 December 2020 Ethan Hawke I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend’s house and staying up late and watching ‘Nosferatu.’ Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
3 December 2020 Sting I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
