Angelina Jolie Quotes

You know you are in a good film when it affects the audience.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

There's so much to argue about. That was the goal with 'Really Really.' Somebody asked me once, 'How should I feel when I leave?' and I said, 'Hopefully, you're talkative.' I don't really care if you're happy or sad or loved it or hated it or hate me. The goal is that you have something to say, that you have a response.

I never want to make the kind of film whose impact ends when the audience leaves the cinema.

Whatever films I make, the mandate is that it should touch the audiences and engage them from the first scene.

It's tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don't really make you think.

A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie.

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.

I don't want to make videos where people are always happy and they're agreeing. It's boring! Do something where people can talk about it.

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

I never leave a piece of theater that I love and say, 'That was a good point; They made a good point.' I leave, and I feel something.

My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.