Sergio Leone Quotes

I love Brian De Palma.

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

People didn't suddenly wake up one morning and unanimously say 'I'm fed up with midbudget dramas. I'm only going to see action tent poles from now on!'

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

Film is changing, and it can't help but keep changing.

Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.

I'm an actor because of movies like 'Indiana Jones' and 'Jurassic Park.'

In the '80s, all the movies became predictable.

With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.

I grew up in England, and at the time, cinema was very heavy arthouse cinema, and there was no one making movies that were designed to be in multiplexes.

TV has made us get down to the nub and new films will begin to live up to what the medium can be.

My job is to make superhit films

One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a point where a movie like "Moonlight" winning [Oscar] or Barry Jenkins being nominated and winning, you know, for a screenplay or being nominated for best director - that it's just commonplace. They shouldn't be a novelty.

As a kid I watched the Academy Awards on television and always wanted one - or several - like one of my favorite directions, John Ford. He won six. On the other hand, Orson Welles, who's on the top of my list, didn't win any. Alfred Hitchcock didn't win any. Howard Hawks didn't win any.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim because that keeps me in business. A filmmaker's greatest concern is the ability to make future films, so it helps keep me in business.

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.

Film has changed vastly in the time that I've been an actor, and it's, I think, very much for the better. I think there are just magnificent films now, and they're blossoming in the way that the novel did years ago.

I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some films that were given big releases. And I'm not really sure that happens in quite the same way, small films getting big releases. Maybe it still does, I don't know.

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding