It’s like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They’re scared, but they’re not going to get hurt. – Vincent D’Onofrio
I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that’s what I love about dealing with things. – Will Gluck
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down. – Uwe Boll
I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has kids and stuff, so he sounds really awesome, not to mention he makes awesome movies. – Ty Simpkins
It used to be the case that studio executives like Robert Evans, Darryl Zanuck, and David Selznick would put aside money for what they wanted to be great movies regardless of whether they would perform well with the box office. – Tom Sizemore
There might have been a period around ‘Tango & Cash’ when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight’s always been changing for the movies I’m in. – Sylvester Stallone
I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you’re in the movies, you’re rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe. – Tippi Hedren
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. – Sam Mendes
Movies are becoming more global, which is making them less intimate. If you make a movie for the world, you don’t make it for any country. – Ted Sarandos
I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, ‘Citizen Kane’, James Dean movies, etc, etc. – Tommy Wiseau
You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that’s a home run. – Vin Diesel
We haven’t done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the ’90s, but they failed. – Til Schweiger
I’ve always hated superheroes. I cannot stand them. I love Norse mythology, but I hate superheroes. They ruined movies, then comics, and now games. – Tim Schafer
You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book. – Walter Kirn
I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection. – Tyler Perry
I’m a big fan of Alan J. Pakula’s films like ‘All the President’s Men’, ‘The Parallax View,’ and ‘Klute.’ I’m a big fan of those movies. – Simon Baker
In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. – Warren Spector
You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That’s how it all began. – Stanley Donen
Why do fairy tales exist, and why do movies exist? Why do novels exist? There has to be a reason for it; otherwise, none of these things would be there. – Tim O’Brien
I don’t like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing. – Zach Galifianakis