Michael Moore Quotes

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

Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.

When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful.

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

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

You don't want to watch a film for two hours that depresses you or makes you think so much it evokes a negative reaction.

If you're going to ask people to pay a premium price, you have to deliver a premium product. Not enough 3D movies have delivered on that promise. People got tired of it, and that's why they started to turn their back on 3D.

It's just a wonderful experience and it's fun when you make a film and people go to it to emote and in my picture you hear the audible sobbing and then you hear the audible laughter and then you see people leaving the theater with a little bit of spring in their step. It's just great to be part of one that lasts a long time.

We want to make people feel something after they buy that ticket.

I love when a TV show, or entertainment in general, makes me feel something; be it positive, be it negative, be it happiness, be it awkward, uncomfortable if it can make me feel, it's done it's job.

I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to get over it and past it.

You're a superhero. Shut up and enjoy having superpowers. This makes me crazy. This is why the Marvel movies kick DC movies' asses right and left. Because, I'm not paying $15 for a movie to go watch people being morose about lives that are much more interesting and exciting than mine and they hate them. I'm paying my money to see people sort of revel in doing things that I can't do.

I love what movies and television and all that kind of stuff has done to me through the years. I love that it can bring up all these different emotions in me - whether it's anger or happiness or sadness...whatever it may be.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

In my entire career, I've never cried, consistently, through a movie, ever.

No-one can disappoint you, only your thoughts about them can

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

Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.

When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.