#movies

I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life! ↗

— Brad Paisley

#farm #fun #going #i #i care

It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#garbage #heathcliff #jay-gatsby #love #men

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#dreams #meryl-streep #movies #theory #yourself

America hadn't really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World's Policeman. As a patriotic American, Oscar was quite content to watch other people's military coming home in boxes for a while. The American national character wasn't suited for global police duties. It never had been. Tidy and meticulous people such as the Swiss and the Swedes were the types who made good cops. America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic, bipolar stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of socially responsible centurions. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#movies

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#about #film #idea #make #usually

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen reflected on the upturned faces of the members of the audience. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#audiences #beauty #cinema #experience #film

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#difficult #i #i do #just #know

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#camera #cutting #down #everybody #front

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#dies #disappear #even #movies #never

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#going #i #i think #joy #movies