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I'm used to watching old movies of myself. -- Jeff Bridges
I love turning my daughter on to old movies. -- Susie Bright
I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic. -- Yancy Butler
I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies. -- Keith David
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal. -- Zooey Deschanel
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. -- Angela Carter
I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies. -- Judy Greer
In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better. -- John Kricfalusi
When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies. -- Ewan McGregor
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. -- Amy Sedaris
I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful. -- Lana Del Rey
When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time. -- Dita Von Teese
I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film. -- Drew Goddard
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm. -- Jack White
I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends and family. I try to spend time with the ones that I love and work as hard as possible. -- Justin Bartha
I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s. -- Natalie Dormer
That's what I love about those old movies - the music is like a constant companion. Even in scenes that aren't particularly dramatic, like a woman checking her watch, you hear the music as a comment on that action. -- Petra Haden
People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed. -- Kirk Douglas
When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they're going to the store and they've got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves, I'm offended that I can't go to the store like that. -- Blake Lively
My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state. -- Randolph Scott
People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams. -- Francis Ford Coppola
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. -- John Cusack
If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more. -- Kari Matchett
I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up. -- Tabatha Coffey
I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up. -- Imelda May
I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I'll do: I'll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don't know why I find that so addictive, but I do! -- John Travolta
I am more of an old black and white movies fan. -- Peter Tork
I've been into horror movies ever since I was five years old. -- Kirk Hammett
Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself. -- James Surowiecki
I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns. -- Ruthie Foster
I thought about making movies. It hit me when I was about 14, 15 years old. -- Michelle Rodriguez
It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old. -- Roger Ebert
But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC. -- Olivier Martinez
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film. -- Ted Demme
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Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die. -- George A. Romero
I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies. -- Keith Johnstone
I kind of forgot about the inner child in me that loved the old horror movies. -- Robert Englund
I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies. -- Nick Denton
I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old. -- John Corbett
I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies. -- Judy Greer
In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies. -- Amy Heckerling
I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.' -- Miranda Cosgrove
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl. -- Sylvester Stallone
My kids are old enough now that they can watch that, but I like to do the family movies. -- Elizabeth Perkins
I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies. -- Jennifer Lawrence
All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do. -- Evan Goldberg
I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials. -- Sam Elliott
A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys. -- Val Kilmer
Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old. -- Elvis Presley
Even being close to L.A., I was always inspired by old movies and Marilyn Monroe and the glamour of Hollywood. -- Gwen Stefani
I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies. -- Boti Bliss
I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies. -- Joe Manganiello
You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life. -- David Brenner
I like old school horror movies like Exorcist. I always loved scaring myself and I don't know at all what that's about. -- Jamie Campbell Bower
Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal. -- Jeremy Clarkson
I draw creative juices from everywhere. I'm so visually inspired. I would watch old movies a lot to get inspiration for clothes. -- Cindy Meehl
I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change. -- Liv Ullmann
As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid. -- Kola Boof
I'm a little older and I'm gonna do a bunch more movies and then they're gonna put me in a home for old directors. -- Garry Marshall
Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. -- Bassem Youssef
I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more static and tableaux-ish. -- Guy Maddin
Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book dust. -- Rebecca Makkai
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. -- Peter Jackson
I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies. -- Charles Ferguson
I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood. -- Lily Collins
My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films. -- Tom Rachman
Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it. -- Alexis Bledel
I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends. -- Brad Dourif
When you think of dog movies, that genre, Old Yeller is sort of the benchmark and you hope that you can raise your game up to that. -- Jennifer Aniston
I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with. -- Peter Jackson
I love it, man; I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening. -- Jonah Hill
Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old. -- John Landis
I don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party. -- Quentin Tarantino
I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies. -- John Travolta
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole. -- Alfie Kohn
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson. -- Amanda Donohoe
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson. -- Amanda Donohoe
My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment. -- James Wolk
When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them. -- George A. Romero
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can. -- Francis Ford Coppola
People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do. -- Oliver Stone
Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look. -- Bruce Boxleitner
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. -- Tim Burton
In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out. -- Eli Wallach
I cant wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert Terminator 2 to 3D more than I want anything in the world. -- Evan Goldberg
I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty. -- Lisa Kudrow
I can't wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert 'Terminator 2' to 3D more than I want anything in the world. -- Evan Goldberg
The whole idea of re-releasing old movies does bother me a little bit. If they're going to re-release an old movie, I should be able to get in with my old ticket. -- Craig Ferguson
My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles. Respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to. -- Lily Collins
I don't really watch much TV. I watch old movies and stuff like that, so I'm not up to date. My favorite vampire movie would definitely have to be the one with Gary Oldman [Dracula]. -- Steven R. McQueen

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