Samuel L. Jackson Quotes

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

Movies will always be movies, and you can never replace that feeling of when the lights go down and the image comes up.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation.

I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.

During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

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

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.

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

As a filmmaker, you want nothing more than to have people say, 'I love your movie.'

I only treat myself as an audience with each film, I enjoy different stories.

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

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.

In my teens, I fell in love with the movies.

I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.

If you love movies, then you love America.

Film is my first love. It wasn't something I intended to fall in love with, but I grew to love it.

I cry at movies.