Evangeline Lilly Quotes

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.

We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt.

The first time I saw 'Star Wars,' I got so excited that I threw up.

When I was growing up, I loved the films where you'd start them and the score might sound really odd at first and really different, and then by the time you finish, you can't imagine it being any other way.

I'm one of those people who can watch a stupid movie and end up crying.

I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

I cried when I watched 'The Notebook' for the first time. Any guy who tells you they didn't cry when they watched 'The Notebook's just lying.

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

'The Sixth Sense' is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it's dazzling.

I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.

'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.

People react to 'Drive' in a way that is very primal.

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

How the audience as a collectivity feels about a movie is important.

I loved going to the movies, especially when I was a teenager in the seventies. How couldn't you in what was perhaps the greatest era of auteur cinema?

I am black, and I loved 'Django.'

When I saw the scene in 'Close Encounters,' and Richard Dreyfuss's son is screaming at him - that's a heartbreaking scene. And I remember being devastated by 'E.T.' Or when E.T. started to get sick. That broke me up a little bit.

I cried watching 'Million Dollar Baby.' I'm a big baby, man.

I remember when 'Daddy Day Care' came out, I saw fathers and their sons and daughters walking out of the theater and talking about the movie. That's the neatest thing.

I kind of like '2001.'