Movies Quotes

Movies are like writing history with lightning.

Sometimes you do know, in 'Commando' when I said 'I lied', I knew that it was going to be a funny line. I've never had a bad line.

I'm not a person that thinks back in the first place. I think forward. And it's always been less that people didn't get the character, but more people being mad that the movie fell short. Or people would say they are glad the movie went in the toilet. And I totally agree with them. I think there are some movies I made that it was a good thing they went into the toilet, because they weren't good enough. The director f - -ed up, or the production was too small, or I screwed up, whatever the reasons are.

You make a movie, and if somebody reads something into it, then great, more power to him.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

I never look back and think too much about my films. I've done some work I've been proud of over the years but which of them is my favourite I really don't know. I could say the last one. I've had little jumps in my career like Unforgiven possibly.

I saw Danny Kaye in a movie, and he was doing voices and faces on that big, big screen and making whole audiences laugh. It was just an instant hookup.

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

I walked out of the movie "Lincoln" and bought the book [of Doris Kearns Goodwin] at the bookstore next door.

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

I was delighted to be able to do the movie ["Terminator: Genisys"] without getting exhausted or feeling old or tired or anything like this. I felt I was in great shape and I felt really young.

I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.

I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.

Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast.

If I would do another 'Terminator' movie I would have Terminator travel back in time and tell Arnold not to have a special election.

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.

I like a drama.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'

If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball.

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.

The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant.

I think that one-liners are very important and sometimes you don't even know when you're making the movie that it's going to be a great line. I remember when we did 'The Terminator' and I came to the line "I'll be back" I had no idea that it was going to be an important line.

As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.

The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

I like when they say a movie is inspired by a true story. That's kind of silly. "Hey, Mitch, did you hear that story about that lady who drove her car into the lake with her kids and they all drowned?" "Yeah, I did, and you know what - that inspires me to write a movie about a gorilla!"

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.

I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I live in my imagination, so sometimes movies help me get lost. I feel like I'm in it.