Movie Engagement Quotes

I like movies that make you semi fall in love with the villain so you have sympathy for him.

I've seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they're not films. They're images. They're flashes. They're many beautiful images, lots of things to look at. They capture you. But it's not a film. It's not something that involves you in a story. They go to cinema now to be blown away by the effects.

I have a tendency to check out when the stakes are too high in a movie.

When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.

That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

I think there are always going to be people who say, even if they are engaged in the movie, they just want it to move faster.

When you're in a movie with an audience, you can feel where a film is dragging. People start to move. They fidget. You need that perspective. To give it a cold eye.

Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.

Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

I think seeing films should be interactive. I'd rather have people see a film that I'm in and either absolutely love it or absolutely hate it, than be like, "Oh, yeah, it was good." That's the worst!

When you have a major movie star, and then they're surrounded by local extras, it takes me out or makes me more conscious of what's going on, as opposed to losing myself in the movie.

For acting, once I am doing a movie, I am fully into that. But I am not one to chase films. When it comes, it comes.