The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies dont do well, after a while you dont get to make any more movies. – Joaquin Phoenix
Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. Theyre to promote each others movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and theyll go to see them. Its still the same. – Javier Bardem
Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but its not like its a bible. – Javier Bardem
I dont really care where movies come from as long as theyre worth making. – Javier Bardem
Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and thats not fair. How can you tell whats best and whats worst from these awards? Were talking about art. – Javier Bardem
Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and theres a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious. – Javier Bardem
Im a fan of action movies. – Kate Beckinsale
I think whats dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, Well, I can totally handle myself now. But if my opponent didnt know the other half of the routine, I dont know how well Id do. – Kate Beckinsale
I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because youve lost human scale. – Harrison Ford
If military movies were automatically successful wed make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common. – Tommy Lee Jones
Yes, Im going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President. – Ben Affleck
I kinda see my current position like this: Heres your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before Chuck Woolery rings the bell. – Ben Affleck
Youre basically the sum of all the experiences youve ever had, and theyre sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies. – Ben Affleck
Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume youre responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit. – Ben Affleck
My movies are unadorned, theyre not particularly fancy, I think theyre kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. – Ben Affleck
Ive never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures. – Ben Affleck
You dont go to the movies to do historical research, unless its historical research about the movies. – Tony Kushner
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. Im not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations. – Tony Kushner
I just love movies, so suddenly, youre political about movies, and thats dark. Its just not fun when something you love becomes calculated. – Kevin Smith
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you cant tell what youre going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family. – Bil Keane
