By going to the movies and because of other things too going to college making a wide variety of friends moving around traveling I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film or art but as movies something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
I realized this is what God has dealt me and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.
There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.
I love doing normal things - movies shopping going out with friends writing reading taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
At the time I came along Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity usually involving boys in pursuit of sex and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends church school church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.
I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
Keywords : repression
Sure 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.
One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.
A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene and I loved creating those but I never really had great stories to string them together.
I'm doing 'Les Miserables' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like 'Come on let's do a moviemusical.'
I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine' 'X Men' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.
I've seen many many movies over the years and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
I grew up watching all these crazy movies European movies and stuff and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like comedy movies are just 'Oh Jesus.'
I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena Queen of the Jungle.'
Where I come from it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies leave alone American movies.
I had done some flimflam movies but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
You know what your problem is it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
In life single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies they are given imaginary power.
No but way before that I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah that was an amazing chance. You know at my age to be able to do a music dance video very unusual.
A lot of movies are about life mine are like a slice of cake.
There's only one thing that can kill the movies and that's education.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
I think cinema movies and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
I don't take the movies seriously and anyone who does is in for a headache.
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do how to do it when to do it how to feel about it and how to look how you feel about it.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
You can map your life through your favorite movies and no two people's maps will be the same.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books they're not the theatre.
Sometimes in movies I still have to be the hero but it's not all that important to me anymore.
Advertising is a racket like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said Well it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class age gender culture.