00s Movies Quotes

#1. Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very rarely do anything else. #Quote by Peter Greenaway

#2. I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those. #Quote by Dree Hemingway

#3. In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks. #Quote by Ahmed Zewail

#4. I don't like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want. #Quote by Rob Zombie

#5. I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture. #Quote by Will Gluck

#6. I go to the movies. I absolutely love film. #Quote by Frederick Lenz

#7. The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure. #Quote by Naomi Watts

#8. There's not a lot of good movies being made. #Quote by Sean Penn

#9. I couldn't picture heaven. How could a place be any good at all if it didn't have the things there you enjoyed doing? If there were no comic books, no monster movies, no bikes, and no country roads to ride them on? No swimming pools, no ice cream, no summer, or barbecue on the Fourth of July? No thunderstorms, and front porches on which to sit and watch them coming? Heaven sounded to me like a library that only held books about one certain subject, yet you had to spend eternity and eternity and eternity reading them. What was heaven without typewriter paper and a magic box? #Quote by Robert McCammon

#10. Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation ... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light ... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity. #Quote by Edward Jay Epstein

#11. I don't really like horror shows, horror movies, or any of that. I'm really a lightweight, in terms of that. #Quote by Angela Bassett

#12. But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going. #Quote by Eric Fellner

#13. I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week. #Quote by Edward Witten

#14. I like high impact movies. #Quote by Kathryn Bigelow

#15. I want to make big movies that appeal to a lot of people. That's satisfying to me. #Quote by Steve Antin

#16. I wasn't actually going to see the original film [Lord of the Ring], because I didn't think it was possible that a film could represent the books appropriately. So I was protesting, and I wasn't going to see them. And then my family all took a jaunt together, the entire family, to see the movies, and were like, "What, you're just going to stay home?" So I saw the movies and was thoroughly impressed that Peter Jackson managed to make my vision of the book come to life, as well as my sister's and my father's, and my aunt's and my uncle's, everyone's. #Quote by Evangeline Lilly

#17. That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain. #Quote by Cassandra Clare

#18. Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do not wax their fire engines and cruise down the local parade route, lights flashing; they are not the subject of countless popular books and movies; major politicians do not honor their sacrifices on the Senate floor or from the Rose Garden; they do not have bagpipe bands, fancy equipment, enduring icons, or other signifiers of honor verifying the importance of their activity. #Quote by Matthew Desmond

#19. The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today? #Quote by Sebastian Thrun

#20. When Rip Torn dies - heaven forbid - but when he dies, you'll only have to write RIP Torn. #Quote by Gregor Collins

#21. I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like 'An American Werewolf in London' in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway. #Quote by James Roday

#22. I used to love the 'Star Trek' movies, 'Wrath of Khan' and stuff like that. Loved those movies when I was a kid. And 'Star Wars' obviously was hands-down probably - I mean I had the sheets. I was a big fan of that. #Quote by Michael Ealy

#23. I suppose all the movies I've seen will be worth nothing to me when I die. Wrong. They'll be worth something, believe me. Don't stop going to the movies. #Quote by Roberto Bolano

#24. If you keep your eyes closed, your mind will show you all kinds of crazy movies ... But with your eyes open, all you had to face was the nothingness of what you were really doing. #Quote by Adam Johnson

#25. I've done a lot of bad TV and bad movies. I've also done some really great things. #Quote by Nikki DeLoach

#26. If I want to walk out in the desert and heat up a can of beans on a fire, I still can. In those movies like Gattaca or whatever, the space age stuff is always all there is. But in the world there is never just one way of living. It's more like a big junkyard. Put it this way: I'm not afraid I'm going to end up on a space station in aluminium-foil underwear. #Quote by Tom Waits

#27. Everyone thinks their romance is classy AF. No one sits there comparing their coupledom to the stuff of Lifetime movies. And no one thinks it will go away because, if you did, you'd never take a chance. Luckily, the human heart is not that logical. #Quote by Leah Konen

#28. I thought about making movies. It hit me when I was about 14, 15 years old. #Quote by Michelle Rodriguez

#29. And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to the roof of his mouth, where even the sons of the house have to go into the cornfield with the rickshaw boy to joke about whores and compare the length of their members and whisper furtively about dreams of being film directors (Hanif's dream, which horrifies his dream-invading mother, who believes the cinema to be an extension of the brothel business), where life has been transmuted into grotesquery by the irruption into it of history, eventually in the murkiness of the underworld he cannot help himself, he finds his eyes straying upwards, up along delicate sandals and baggy pajamas and past loose kurta and above the dupatta, the cloth of modesty, until eyes meet eyes, and then #Quote by Salman Rushdie

#30. I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations. #Quote by Brian K. Vaughan

#31. Reviews about film acting are very ... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing. #Quote by James Franco

#32. But if you do, then it's a high class problem to have. And if you do, you're the architect of that problem. There's no one else to blame but yourself. You've kept doing the same kinds of movies and that's what they want to see. #Quote by Ryan Reynolds

#33. I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them. #Quote by Bruce Feirstein

#34. I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after. #Quote by Pedro Almodovar

#35. In high school for prom, I asked my girlfriend - we were both into horror movies - by dressing up as a zombie. I had a bloody t-shirt and I spray-painted a giant question mark on my t-shirt and had people hold bloody sings saying, 'Dying to go to prom with you.' #Quote by Justice Smith

#36. There's one thing about weights with action movies: Once your muscles get that tight, it's sometimes hard to stop your movement, especially if you're trying to move with some strength, and with the swords in the film ... #Quote by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#37. I watch TV on my TV pretty exclusively. However, when I'm on that long flight between Los Angeles and New York, a great way to pass that time is to download movies on iTunes and watch them on my laptop. #Quote by Maulik Pancholy