#movies

In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined film footage, and listened to many detailed and intense stories firsthand, but the one comment that affected me the most came from a former soldier who lowered his gaze to the tabletop and said, ‘I never watch war movies. ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#war #movies

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. ↗

— Matt Damon

#ado #around #big-time #brain #go

That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that. ↗

— Matt Damon

#box #box office #business #complicated #guy

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right? ↗

— Evan Dando

#even #even worse #movies #right #rock

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#attention #blockbusters #help #knows #more

You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#effects #games #get #i #incredible

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny. ↗

— Matthew Vaughn

#either #funny #i #i think #make

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#cash #get #i #live #messages

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy! ↗

— Betty Friedan

#equal #forty-five #hard #hepburn #i

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#attractive #bad #doing #fame #money