Ellen Page Quotes

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

Film is so immersive.

Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and that you're part of it. You don't want to be aware of how it's being done; you just want it to feel really seamless.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment.

We excuse movies like 'Independence Day' that really lack logic and say, 'It doesn't make any sense, but it's a ride.' I thought a movie was a movie and a ride was a ride.

In an action film, you think of things that are almost impossible to do and yet you have to manage to show them as being possible on film.

I'm not emotionally excited by the power of cinema's tricks anymore.

The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.

Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

It's always been the genres that fascinated me. I think great action movies and great thrillers are transformative.

For 'Avengers,' in the Albuquerque desert, we shot New York there. And I was standing on a platform, nine feet high... and it was the rooftop of a skyscraper in New York. And it was all desert around me!

A movie can be plain and simple, but if there's a lot of action, I enjoy them.

We love movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow.' It's why we go to the movies, and it's why we make movies.