Moving-on Quotes

I'm obsessed with the power of music and image together. There's also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous - there's a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don't really see in movies in the same way.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

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.

I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I've always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.

I was in 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,' and I like my bad boy movie movies.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers. My father lost his job. My mother drank. They fought. The movies were my escape.

I define 'social thriller' as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society.

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.