On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it’s a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea. – Jim Rash
I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they’re famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too. – Jesse Eisenberg
Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it’s all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully. – Jeff Bridges
The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don’t have characters that I feel as personally connected to. – Jesse Eisenberg
You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It’s fairly cheap entertainment; it’s classic escapism. – John Lasseter
There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose. – James Gray
When I’m feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there. – James Dashner
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. – Jean-Luc Godard
I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman. – John Legend
I’m one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I’m watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I’ll watch a scene or two. – Jeff Bridges
I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn’t before. – John Cusack
My choices in projects have all been character or role-based, and on a financial level, it’s obvious: as an actor on a TV series, I get a wonderful paycheck, and a consistent paycheck, which doesn’t always happen when you’re doing theater or movies. – Jim Parsons
There’s a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the ‘L.A. Weekly.’ I like the underground point of view; it’s my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies. – Harold Ramis
I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South. – Isaac Hayes
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won’t understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel. – John Cassavetes
I’m a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I’ve watched all of them over and over again. I’d want to do a movie with him and Van Damme. – Judah Friedlander
Commercial books don’t even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn’t even find in the theater? – James Patterson