Maika Monroe Quotes

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

I can't really remember my life without movies.

I remember being a kid, I was a little kid when my dad took me to 'Munchausen.' I guess he took my whole family, but I kind of didn't want to go for some reason. Then we got there, and I was so mesmerized by the movie, and I was really taken by the young Sarah Polley. I didn't realize until many, many years later that it was Sarah Polley.

I wouldn't have had the life I've had without movies.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

The first time you watch a movie that you like, all of the magic works on you. It's an experience of having a world unfold in front of you. But if you watch it again, you start to see where the seams are.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

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.

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

I always loved movies and the cinema; we always used to go to see films as a family.

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

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

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

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

My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.

When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies with him, and he would explain the story and characters to me.

I do not knock 'Poppins' or 'The Sound of Music.' They gave me pleasure, and I know they've given a lot of people enormous pleasure.

I'll fully admit that when I went to the movie theater and saw 'Titanic,' I cried afterwards.

It took me a lot of times watching it that I started to appreciate 'Pulp Fiction.'

I guess it the one consistent thing in my life was that sense of magic that film provide - I still remember the movies from my childhood that I loved.