You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing. – Hans Zimmer
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as ‘Tarzan.’ – Henry Louis Gates
But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the middle with number Three, but I didn’t realize he would move in with quite such a bang. – Ian McDiarmid
I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans. – Harry Knowles
All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they’re fun, but they wink at the audience and you’re really not terrified through the movie. – Gina Philips
The American movie, in part because America’s a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that’s really not true for most domestic film industries. It’s no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K. – Howard Stringer
I’d done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I’d done was somebody’s else’s work and someone else’s vision. – Harland Williams
I guess you just feel like there’s a whole story that’s not being told in movies. You’re only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman’s side, may be completely different. – Heather Graham
I don’t share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don’t mind spiders or snakes or darkness. – Helen Mirren
I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm. – Guillermo del Toro
You have to get the audience invested even if you’re doing something that they think is dumb, it’s kind of what these movies are all about. – Halle Berry
A few years after ‘Melrose Place,’ when the luster of ‘Melrose Place’ wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did. – Grant Show
With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, ‘Put some music in there.’ – Gustavo Santaolalla
You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. – Hank Azaria
In Hollywood you can’t even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they’re always showing people smoking. I don’t get it. – Gerald McRaney
I’ve always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don’t want to limit myself. – Hayden Panettiere
I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of. – Guy Ritchie
My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: ‘That’s what I want to do.’ I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television. – Gabriel Macht
Creatively, it’s great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want. – Grant Heslov
A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to. – Hayden Schlossberg
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I’m on the set, but I don’t take myself seriously as an actor. – Henry Rollins
