#movies

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#admire #extent #function #love #see

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story. ↗

— Gene Siskel

#american movies #angry #audience #cynically #even

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here. ↗

— Mel Smith

#credit #enough #given #here #i

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#kinds #like #make #movies #ocean

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#breathing #budgets #down #huge #many

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#dearly #decline #even #i #ii

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#dramas #home #i #kids #little

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#another #could #cry #difficult #difficult times

I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#i #movies #really #schedule #show

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #black #course #i #knew