Movies Quotes

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.

Poppy Z. Brite

When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

Park Chan-wook

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Pat Conroy

I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.

Penelope Cruz

I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.

Pete Cashmore

The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.

Peter Capaldi

We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutio...

Peter Coyote

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

Paul Dano

I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.

Peter Dinklage

I guess rebelliousness has been explored in many movies, but what about the smart kids' rebellion? Not just the motorcycle jackets and that kind of rebellion; it's the dorky kid - what could he do?

Portia Doubleday

We've been shooting the last two weeks with a lot of vampires. I don't want to give away too much, but if you've read the books, it's the standoff with lots of vampires in play. There's like 70 people going through the works at once. It's a little ma...

Peter Facinelli

I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all.

Paul Giamatti

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

Patricia Highsmith

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

Patricia Highsmith

I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, a...

Pico Iyer

I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.

Penn Jillette

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

Peter Jackson

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

Peter Jackson

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

Peter Jackson

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

Peter Jackson

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

Peter Jackson