My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run. – Carol Burnett
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. – Don DeLillo
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else. – Don DeLillo
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat. – Jet Li
I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies. – Jet Li
Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies. – Oliver Stone
Luis Bunuel made great movies. – Giancarlo Esposito
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that. – Oliver Stone
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies. – Zach Braff
And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more. – Niklas Zennstrom
I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. – Frank Miller
I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films. – Jodie Foster
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters. – M. Night Shyamalan
I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good. – Chevy Chase
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies. – M. Night Shyamalan
Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies. – Dario Argento
My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate. – M. Night Shyamalan
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies. – M. Night Shyamalan
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture. – Tom Hooper
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened. – M. Night Shyamalan
