I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters. — George A. Romero
Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies. — Jami Gertz
I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen. — Anthony Hopkins
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture. — Uwe Boll
The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance. — Terry Pratchett
I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie. — Uwe Boll
Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured? — Friedrich Nietzsche
It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies. — Matthew Vaughn
A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat. — Michael O'Donoghue
The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie. — Joe Dante
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters — Francisco Goya
In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies. — Akira Toriyama
I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things — Guillermo del Toro
A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation. — George A. Romero
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder
We stopped checking for monsters under the bed, when we realized they were inside of us
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — J. K. Rowling
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — John Hughes
You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed? — Wyatt Earp
See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody. — Frank Lucas
The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room. — Frank Lucas
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. — J. K. Rowling
Acting In Movies Quotes
Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one. — Charles Bukowski
I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record. — Stan Lee
Stop being a supporting player in the movie that is your life. Become the movie star. This is a hero's journey you have embarked upon. It's high time you start acting like it. — Rich Roll
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity
I'd like to be a superhero or a supervillain in a huge action movie. I want to play, like, the Joker or something like that. — Jake Paul
After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices. — Brittany Snow
I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that. — Gucci Mane
I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
I think the best roles are in dark movies. It's roles that aren't you. It's fun playing someone that's not me. If I'm playing me all the time, then it's not acting. It's just being yourself. — Chloe Grace Moretz
Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie. — Glen Duncan
Animated Movies Quotes
I'm not a party animal. I'm a chill homebody. I like to watch movies and go out to eat. That's my idea of a good time. I'm definitely able to be social. — Jhene Aiko
You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul. — Walt Disney
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse. — George Carlin
If there be monsters, they can be slain.
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. — Graham Chapman
When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth. — Steve Carell
I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie. — Ennio Morricone
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true. — Walt Disney
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. — John Lasseter
People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love. — Miriam Makeba
Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*. — Peter O'Toole
Bad Movies Quotes
You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig. — Clint Eastwood
J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday. — Steven Cojocaru
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. — Dick Brandon
I'm not interested in a realistic look - not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.
You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real. — Gaspar Noe
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera. — Douglas Rushkoff
I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Great moments are born from great opportunities.
Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good. — Billy Bob Thornton
Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right. — Stephanie Zacharek
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again. — Jennifer Beals
I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads. — Ahmet Zappa
I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run crazy and blow at monsters! It was a physical shoot and I enjoyed it. — Sarah Polley
I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me. Something about that is symbolism - the beauty and the magic which helps me work with film and start making modern fairy tales. — Tim Burton
To make Michael Myers frightening, I made him walk like a man, not a monster.
This is a jury of your peers. They watch the same TV movies. They belong to Oprah’s Book Club. You can take any monster, slap a bad dad into his past, and all of a sudden he’s just another lost soul, lashing out. And you were the poor lady that got in the way. They’ll argue you lacked compassion. You were the one who took things too far. — Jeremy Robert Johnson
I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever. — Matthew Gray Gubler
All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.
Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies. — Mojo Nixon
I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature. — Victor Salva
Let's put a smile on that face! — Heath Ledger
I grew up really loving horror movies and genre movies. I was a big fan of Universal Monsters movies, read Famous Monsters magazine. I built monster models and creature effects... — Gregory Nicotero
Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the Ghostbusters represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside. — Harold Ramis
I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real. — Sayings
Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling Blade, One False Move, Bad Santa even. I mean Bad Santa is a comedy, and it's a very dark comedy, and it's become like iconic, you know. — Billy Bob Thornton
Where there is life, there is hope. — Alyson Noel
I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original. — Adrian Lyne
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER. — Walter Dean Myers
It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's not fighting monsters. This isn't the kind of movie that's got the comic book style of fighting to it. It was a bit more gritty. — Kate Beckinsale
I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies. — Nick Denton
My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies. — Joe Manganiello
There are a lot of movies with vampires and monsters and super-great effects, but if there's no humor or human relations, I don't think it's ever worth seeing. — Harald Zwart
I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies. — Niki Taylor
It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller. — Ed Wood
I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects. — George A. Romero
It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie. — David Thewlis
I think what all the Universal monster movies are defined by, and what makes them very special, is that it's really the only genre entirely unto itself, in which you fear the monster and fear for the monster. That's a very hard thing to do. To fear for and fear at the same time is extremely unique. — Alex Kurtzman
I've always been a horror movie fan, since I was a kid. And I was also a really scared kid. I was easily scared of the dark. One of the ways I would try and get away from my fear of the dark was to pretend like the monsters were my friends. — Dan Chaon
I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots. — Anna Biller
My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle extreme circumstances. — Ed Gass-Donnelly
That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures. — Tim Burton
Let's look different! I like monster movies, so why can't I have Godzilla's face on my boots? — Gene Simmons
When I was a kid, before there were VCRt, my parents had a movie projector, and we'd watch Frankenstein and Dracula. I just always though that stuff was cool - creepy comics and monsters and horrific stuff. Music lends itself to that whole theme. — Chris Reifert
Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre. — Bryan Fuller
All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do areally bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list. — Elmer Bernstein
As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up. — Kevin Grevioux
The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory. — E. O. Wilson
The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are you going to root for a protagonist who spends all his time trying to stop the reason you came to the movie from happening? It's always a dance — Joss Whedon
I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity. — Nicolas Cage
When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films. — Bong Joon-ho
I love horror comedies, and I love horror movies. In particular, I love horror movies from the '80s that have practical monsters in them. They're not just slasher movies with people going to kill people in people's houses. I do like these ridiculous monster movies. They're scary, but they're absurd. I had a lot of fun in my 20's, watching a lot of these movies late at night. — Ken Marino
As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more naturalistic and more organic to humanity. When you have lines like, "Never let the monster out," it's hard. — Josh Brolin
I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I've gotta make sense of them.
I enjoy helping to develop material for movies, it's a way for me to get into the part. — Tina Fey
I do fat people and these makeups are really hard to do, but I want to make monster movies. — Rick Baker
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and superheroes)—but most wondrous of all is his intimate sense of character. Each story is a confession of love betrayed, told with a mournful, austere tenderness as heartbreaking as it is breathtaking. — Peter Ho Davies
The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent's Google search run amok. — Richard Corliss
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