Beltway Movies Quotes

If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth. ~ Justin Long

You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like in movies where girls like assholes or anything like that. It's not that easy. They just like somebody that can give them purpose. ~ Stephen Chbosky

I felt like I'd somehow gotten stuck in a scene from one of those cheesy TV movies I never watched because they were too unrealistic...Except apparently somehow, unbelievably, this had become my real life. ~ May Archer

When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I'd lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies. ~ Gayle King

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

The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

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

I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my family and run around play dress-up all the time. I think I was 4 when I told them I wanted to do movies. ~ Emma Roberts

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily. ~ Oliver Stone

Her idea of a perfect start to the weekend is a quiet evening at the movies, just her and Greg. ~ Susan Cain

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular. ~ Alexander Payne

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason. ~ Brian Selznick

I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me. ~ Nora Ephron

With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But with a show that's successful, if you start in the first or second season and go until the end, you're always finding new elements of your character that are being added in because you start to live in them as human beings. ~ Sinqua Walls

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. ~ Morten Tyldum

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star. ~ Nicolas Roeg

I just stopped reading a lot of books. I mean, I read books that I have to read for school, but I don't actually pick up a book and read for fun. On my time off, I go to movies, hang out with friends, go shopping ... just little things. ~ Mark Indelicato

Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders. Very quickly, he became for me a massive hero, and he introduced me to the world of a director. ~ Denis Villeneuve

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story. ~ Gene Siskel

I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie. ~ Pedro Almodovar

I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing. ~ Zach Galifianakis

And the book... and the work.. and the life goes to the whole beginning... and trying to answer how in real did we met.

(Mr.Nobody, No One Tell) ~ Deyth Banger

I'd like to do more TV; TV is completely different than working in movies in a lot of ways, it's like making a really compact movie. Because you don't have as much time, especially hour long shows, they move so quickly. ~ Abigail Breslin

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie. ~ Bill Paxton

All I knew is that I loved movies and comedy and TV, and I wanted to perform. I made a bunch of shorts and movies in college, and that was always fun too. I directed some plays in college. It was taking it all in and trying to immerse myself in as much of it as possible. ~ Ed Helms

In all, I was in 16 movies, including 'The Bishop's Wife' with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven; I was in 'Rio Grande' with John Wayne, 'Albuquerque' with Randall Scott, 'Blue Skies' with Bing Crosby and 'Hans Christian Anderson' with Danny Kaye. ~ Karolyn Grimes

It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people. ~ Magnus Scheving

That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house ... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films. ~ Cate Blanchett

Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me for a week. I live by myself in my apartment, and I don't worry about intruders or robbery; I mostly worry about alien abduction or evil, mean ghosts. ~ Claire Coffee

perhaps we are not as free as we might think in the first place. Given your background, your friends, your family, the books you read, and the movies you watch, how surprising is your vote in a federal election? ~ Tyler Cowen

Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' don't really involve Santa. ~ George Wendt

The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile. ~ Julianne Moore

In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth. ~ Viggo Mortensen

Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they've become - there's a sense of regret. So at the end of these movies there's a dramatic resonance that really stays with the audience. ~ Thomas Haden Church

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically. ~ Aaron Eckhart

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church! ~ Anson Mount