Bad Movies Quotes - Page 3

• The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.

  Walker Percy

  Memorable, People, Treasure

  The Moviegoer ch. 1 (1961)

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• I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Good Movie

  Interview with Helen Earnshaw, www.malextra.com. August 20, 2013.

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• I love really kitschy bad movies. Showgirls is one of my favorites. I saw House of Versace and died. I'm a big fan of made-for-TV movies because those are instant classics, naturally.

  Bonnie McKee

  House, Fans, Saws

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

  Maryse Alberti

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "The Female Cinematographers of Neon Demon, Creed, and Dope Discuss Their Experiences in a Male-Dominated Field". Interview with Kevin Lincoln, www.vulture.com. June 27, 2016.

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• If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

  Judd Apatow

  Comedian, Rest Of Your Life, Mock

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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• President Bush said this Iraq situation looks like 'the rerun of a bad movie.' Well sure, there's a Bush in the White House, the economy's going to hell, we're going to war over oil. I've seen this movie, haven't I?

  Jay Leno

  Movie, War, Oil

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• Careers are built on relationships. Even if it's a bad movie, even if I know it's a bad movie, even if it's a team of filmmakers that I know are going to be difficult, that I know are going to really make me work extra hard, it's fundamentally the same process.

  Christophe Beck

  Team, Careers, Process

  Source: collider.com

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• An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

  Clint Eastwood

  Long, Good Movie, Mind

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• In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star ... Today people can idolize a star in one area and forget about him in another. A big rock star might sell millions and millions of records, but then if he makes a bad movie ... forget it.

  Andy Warhol

  Stars, Rocks, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Cat, Moon, Devil

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• Bad movies are when people go oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.

  Barbara Broccoli

  People, Want, Bucks

  "Producers Barbara Broccoli & Michael Wilson Interview QUANTUM OF SOLACE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 15, 2008.

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• Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

  Roger Ebert

  Running, Lines, Film

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.23, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

  Katherine Paterson

  Book, Two, Media

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• Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

  Jonah Hill

  Temptation, Culture, Kind

  "Jonah Hill: 'People think I'm a horny, foul-mouthed teenager. But I'm 26 and very ambitious'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

  Jason Reitman

  Dog, Writing, Thinking

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• I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Movie, Believe, Actors

  "I have done nothing" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2009.

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• I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.

  Matthew Lillard

  Thinking, Actors, Like Me

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

  Dylan McDermott

  Hard Times, Good Movie, Able

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• I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be
  great.

  Joan Chen

  Frustrated

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• No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

  Roger Ebert

  Long, Good Movie, Enough

  "A long column about the length of movies" by Eric Snider, www.mtv.com. July 13, 2011.

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, they make bad movie after bad movie.

  Peter Stormare

  Schwarzenegger

  "Actors pay a big price" By Martine Costello, www.cnn.com. March 22, 2001.

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• If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

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• I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

  Sean Penn

  Good Movie, Fans, Matter

  "New Again: Sean Penn". Interview with Melissa Belk, Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2012.

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• If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink or not drink, there is no good reply you can give to people who say, More important than the body is the mind and the soul, and man hurts himself much more by reading bad books, by listening to bad music and looking at bad movies. Therefore it is the duty of the government to prevent people from committing those faults. And, as you know, for many hundreds of years governments and authorities velieved that it was their duty.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Hurt, Freedom, Book

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.22, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

  Susanne Bier

  Fun, Long, Healthy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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