By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.
It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
I just kind of hang out, watch movies and play golf.
I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.
Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.
Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of ...
People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.
'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here...
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.
I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.
