Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I’m a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I’d done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do. – Jeff Bridges
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened. – Jasper Fforde
Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ don’t really involve Santa. – George Wendt
I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like ‘Raging Bull’, ‘Rocky’, ‘The Set Up’, ‘Fat City and Hard Times’. I just loved those films. – Holt McCallany
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Batman Begins’ set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker’s perspective. – Jon Favreau
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness. – Ira Glass
Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching ‘Disco Dancer;’ I watched it some 20 times as a kid. – Jan Koum
I don’t really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I don’t know why that is. I’m not particularly deep or anything, I just like foreign movies. – Isla Fisher
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it’s about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. – Jim Harrison
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb! – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
If you look at Christmas movies, there are certain things in them that lend themselves to a ‘Harold & Kumar’ movie. In particular, the more out-of-this-world things like Santa Claus and flying reindeer. – Hayden Schlossberg
As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen. – James Wan
I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, ‘Real Housewives.’ – Grace Helbig
The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person. – Jon Favreau
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well. – Jodie Foster
I think there’s still an appetite among a certain audience to see intelligent movies that have real emotion in them. – Jeremy Irons
I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration. – J. Michael Straczynski
Nowadays it seems more and more like the ‘business’ in ‘show business’ is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it’s all part of getting people in to see the movies. – Jeff Bridges
With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there’s a certain amount of just going on faith. – J. K. Simmons
Most movies, once the action starts there’s no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there’s just explosions until the end. – John Cusack
I don’t want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it’s just too hard these days. – John Cusack
I would love to do a big studio movie, just because they’re going to put the money into distributing it. A lot of times you do these little movies, you love them and they never get seen by anyone. – Gina Gershon
I don’t tend to be a nitpicker when I’m watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that’s very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn’t have done themselves. – Jane Goldman
I look at the Christian Bale movies, the ‘Batman’ films, and that shows you that superhero movies don’t just have to be about men in tights. – James McAvoy
It’s hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don’t have robots or explosions. – John Green