You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies. Ben Affleck on movies
Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit. Ben Affleck on movies
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. Ben Affleck on movies
I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence. Ben Affleck on movies
I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures. Ben Affleck on movies
You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies. Tony Kushner on movies
Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great. Tony Kushner on movies
As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice. Tony Kushner on movies
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations. Tony Kushner on movies
I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated. Kevin Smith on movies
I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob. Jennifer Garner on movies
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family. Bil Keane on movies
I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy. Jonah Hill on movies
I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. J. J. Abrams on movies
I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. J. J. Abrams on movies
I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. J. J. Abrams on movies
When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be. J. J. Abrams on movies
When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic. J. J. Abrams on movies
Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster. J. J. Abrams on movies
I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact. Maggie Gyllenhaal on movies