Tag: Jerry Saltz

Home Alone’ was a movie, not an alibi.;Jerry Orbach;movies
49192;It couldn’t sound like a dog, because K9 isn’t a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.;John Leeson;movies
49193;We are the movies and the movies are us.;David Ansen;movies
49194;Everything I learned I learned from the movies.;Audrey Hepburn;movies
49195;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.;Marilyn Monroe;movies
49196;My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.;Will Smith;movies
49197;I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.;Will Smith;movies
49198;Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.;Johnny Depp;movies
49199;There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.;Clint Eastwood;movies
49200;Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.;Charlie Chaplin;movies
49201;Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.;F. Scott Fitzgerald;movies
49202;One of my movies was called ‘True Lies.’ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.;Arnold Schwarzenegger;movies
49203;Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don’t any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.;Chuck Palahniuk;movies
49204;And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.;Harvey Fierstein;movies
49205;Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it’s story heavy, it’s about ideas.;Harvey Fierstein;movies
49206;Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don’t.;Harvey Fierstein;movies
49207;I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.;Arnold Schwarzenegger;movies
49208;I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that’s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn’t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.;Stephen King;movies
49209;Somebody asked me about the current choice we’re being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it’s like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.;Dean Koontz;movies
49210;To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49211;The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies.;Bette Davis;movies
49212;By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.;Roger Ebert;movies
49213;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;movies
49214;When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.;Elvis Presley;movies
49215;So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I’m on the set, but I don’t take myself seriously as an actor.;Henry Rollins;movies
49216;Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role… I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘We want to remake ‘The Jerk’ with so and so.’ And I say, ‘Fine.’ It just doesn’t bother me. It’s an honor actually.;Steve Martin;movies
49217;I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that’s happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop – stop dead – and I miss it.;Richard Pryor;movies
49218;My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49219;Movies are not about the weekend that they’re released, and in the grand scheme of things, that’s probably the most unimportant time of a film’s life.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49220;I’m not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49221;Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I’m lucky enough to be in the position where I don’t make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49222;If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49223;All my movies are achingly personal.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49224;I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49225;I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I’m attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn’t quite what I’m seeing – taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I’ve never seen before.;Quentin Tarantino;movies
49226;Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.;Liam Neeson;movies
49227;I don’t really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.;Steven Spielberg;movies
49228;I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.;Steven Spielberg;movies
49229;Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the ‘Thomas Crown Affair’. It’s, it’s, I don’t know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It’s the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it’s not.;Daniel Craig;movies
49230;I didn’t grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.;Sydney Pollack;movies
49231;I have been pregnant in so many movies it’s ridiculous.;Jennifer Aniston;movies
49232;There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.;Jennifer Aniston;movies
49233;My nominee for Best Picture of the year – maybe the best picture ever, because it’s essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies – is Christian Marclay’s endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece ‘The Clock.

-Jerry Saltz