814 Quotes About Movies

Why do fairy tales exist, and why do movies exist? Why do novels exist? There has to be a reason for it; otherwise, none of these things would be there.

A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows.

I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.

Look at the movies of the sixties and seventies. They were making a different kind of movie then. Would 'Network' ever be made now? No. Would 'Kramer vs. Kramer' ever be made now? No. Would 'Tootsie' ever be made now? Probably not. Robert Altman films? Never.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I'm the writer of the movie, and I still don't know what I want it to say. But I do know that this town is going to spend years recovering. And in six months, people will have forgotten us. We'll need something to remind America about this place.

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

I think it was important for us to show that you can make movies in north Louisiana,