Movie History Quotes

I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

I can't tell at what age I developed this love towards movies, but I've always enjoyed watching films. I've grown up watching the films of my uncles Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan.

I have been watching Hollywood films from childhood.

I am obsessed with cinema and its history.

I've never been a big movie person, but I used to watch movies regularly in my life, and sometime in the '90s I just stopped. I certainly never was an educated moviegover.

You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

My dad had a huge movie collection. So we all had a good sense of entertainment history. I was a Jack Lemmon fan more than most people from my generation.

Los Angeles is Hollywood and Hollywood is Hollywood Blvd. It's the first thing you want to see. It's the only thing really that you know about as far as Los Angeles is concerned. And so you go and you look at Joan Crawford's hands and feet and the whole history of American filmmaking is encapsulated in that one little area on that one street. That street, to me, has always been the street of dream.

I love all sorts of movies, whether made by Scorsese or Frank Capra. I love them all.

If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.

I think it would be fun to write about movies again.

Well, 'Terminator', it's just such an iconic movie in movie history. It's universal. I think it's part of the pop culture of the world.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - classics and directors I admire - so that's something I've always been passionate about.

I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such a long time. James Dean became a star in one calendar year, and then he left us. But he's still being talked about, he's still being revered, he's still being iconized forty years later. I don't think there's another example like it in the entire history of movies.

I grew up being obsessed with old Hollywood and loving the history, what's behind the scenes, and what people don't know.

I have learnt a lot about theatre, and I would like to know the same about film.

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.

I grew up in a film lovers' family and I have been watching the best of world cinema from age six.