Movie Style Quotes

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

First of all, Sam Fuller left a group of extraordinary movies that are unique, that are "Fuller-esque," as one might say, which makes them stand apart from any other director's films.

In the evolution of the [The Hunger Games] movie, Gary [Ross] and I talked a lot about tonal bandwidth and making sure that the look and feel and style and choices of the movie stayed within a certain consistent bandwidth.

For my 'Perfect Chemistry' series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

A lot of people have said my movies are all the same. But I don't actually make an effort to have a style. I'm usually just thinking of what can we do to make it funnier or more interesting or just kind of refine it and it ends up like that.

Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.

'Twin Peaks' is like a movie; 'China Beach' is like a movie. These are two of the most cinematic shows on television, and they belong together.

In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.

'Hugo' is made in the classical style of the 1940s.

This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style for 'Teen Witch.' I'm dead serious. She was super involved, and is super creative, so I wore a lot of my actual clothes in the movie. Truly, Louise was my mom's vision. She really created an iconic character.

Definitely it is difficult to maintain the Hollywood stylized action that we had in 'Kick.'

For me, I loved it. I only want to make silent movies now.

I hope this doesn't sound pretentious, but I very often like the way Europeans make movies. I think sometimes that don't they care about having to clean certain things.

With movies, they have a certain person or style that they're looking for. It's not that they don't like you, but maybe you're not the person that's right for their movie. That happens a lot.

One hundred percent, I mean, many of the Sergio Leone movies were with Clint Eastwood, and that's what it is.

John McTiernan, the director, is not Ingmar Bergman. He does action-adventure movies.

I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my movies were changing. They became much more open to dialogue.

I would love to branch out a little bit and... do a Judd Apatow type of movie. It just looks like it's so much fun.

There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style.

You never know how stylish a movie is going to be and I think this movie has a great sense of style. The way that it is shot and our costumes and everything, it was just terrific.

The movie style of fighting is completely exaggerated with over-the-top movements. You'd get completely hammered if you fought like that in a real fight situation.