Marjane Satrapi quote: "It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me."

I only pay to take my son to the movies, because most of the time I only watch European movies, inde...
ANTOINE FUQUA

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

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI

I didn't watch a lot of American television growing up. I just liked to read a lot and watch mov...
JOSS WHEDON

I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I&...
KAREN TRAVISS

I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me sm...
JADEN SMITH

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. Yo...
KEVIN BACON

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that'...
AKON

The cool thing about 'Sweet Tooth' is that you can bring influences from the underground and...
JEFF LEMIRE

But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.
ANTOINE FUQUA

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to ...
MARIA SHARAPOVA

I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into th...
JOSH HELMAN

I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other co...
GABRIEL IGLESIAS

'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of mo...
RACHAEL TAYLOR

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just s...
DANIELLA ALONSO

Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junki...
DAVID LISS

In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even tho...
G. WILLOW WILSON

I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think,...
SARAH SILVERMAN

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don&...
QUENTIN TARANTINO

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's rea...
ZOE KAZAN

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guil...
IRA GLASS

When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my ...
MARCEL DZAMA

I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.
CASEY NEISTAT

People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots o...
KAREN TRAVISS

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of real...
CHRIS WARE

If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility,...
ALEX KARPOVSKY

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
DANIEL CLOWES

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not a...
RACHEL TRUE

A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind...
DOUG LIMAN

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, ...
TERRY ZWIGOFF

I worked on movies with a lot of violence when I was a cinematographer, and it always bothered me. I...
JAN DE BONT

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.
ASHLEY TISDALE

I think being snobby about the kind of storytelling people do, it just irks me. It irks me. And in f...
JASON BLUM

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and he...
PETRA HADEN

I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It...
DAVID HAREWOOD

I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so t...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - a...
KRISTEN STEWART

'The Transporter' 1 and 2 are the movies I do for Luc they're not the kind I would go see or make...
LOUIS LETERRIER

The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as a...
GARTH ENNIS

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, pe...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, pe...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's gi...
STEVE WINWOOD

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector, and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and p...
GRIMES

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
DOUG LIMAN

I like to make movies I like to watch.
ELLE MACPHERSON

Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like some...
BURNING SPEAR

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action directo...
JOHN WOO

When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies w...
LEE BYUNG-HUN

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not m...
DREW BARRYMORE

Inspiration for my 'Nerdy Nummies' videos comes from all over. Many of the ideas originate f...
ROSANNA PANSINO

I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want t...
MASASHI KISHIMOTO

Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with h...
LAURA DERN

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
SAM RAIMI

We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of mov...
ANTOINE FUQUA

Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'...
WARREN SPECTOR

I watch comedy on TV, and it's too cutty for me. I get a little jarred, and it succeeds. It'...
DAVID DOBKIN

I make about two movies a year outside the 'True Blood' schedule. I work on a great show six...
RYAN KWANTEN

I love movies, of course. 'Terminator 3' and 'Bad Boys II' - lots of action. Sports ...
SERGIO GARCIA

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourge...
MARJANE SATRAPI

To me, skin is alien and kind of weird; it weirds me out. It's strange, but it's also really...
FLUME

I used to read comics all the time - escapism, ... So, it was good you get to make up your own adven...
IAN LIVINGSTONE

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business. I...
ARNOLD PALMER

I believe in the concept. I wasn't mentally ready to go back to Afghanistan since we left, and when ...
FARAH GHIAS

I have a few friends that have inspired me since I was a young kid. When I watch old films or modern...
THEOPHILUS LONDON

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that a...
DANNY ELFMAN

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do...
QUENTIN TARANTINO

I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.
BETTY PARSONS

Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I...
SAINA NEHWAL

Since I've said I retired, I've had so many people come up to me about movies and things like that.
ALMUDENA FERNANDEZ

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because...
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

since you are spending time to watch a movies , make it a useful time for a great movie , not just a...
MAHDI KHMI

I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew ...
JONATHAN LEVINE

When I know the data that's being shared and I'm asked explicitly for my consent, I want som...
GARY KOVACS

Music has always been a great solace for me. It's still something that gives me far more joy tha...
ALLISON ANDERS

Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 mil...
ROBBIE COLTRAINE

It was a weird thing for me, because I don't read vampire books. I don't watch vampire movies. I'm n...
STEPHENIE MEYER

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in mo...
GEORGE A. ROMERO

Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I hav...
DIANE KRUGER

When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,...
JAMES GUNN

It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, ...
DARREN ARONOFSKY

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show...
KIM NOVAK

I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lo...
CECILE DE FRANCE

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get rec...
AYUMI HAMASAKI

People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing f...
TANIA RAYMONDE

It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally hav...
NATALIE DU TOIT

Motion comics are just cheap animation. Very cheap animation. And I like animation almost as much as...
DAVE MORRIS

Since music is so important to me, I don't need to put in any extra effort to do this; it just f...
ARMAAN MALIK

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, y...
LAWRENCE KASDAN

I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch game...
XAVI

It's a difficult line to tread, where sometimes you go to the movies or you watch someone do pub...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

A friend of mine from New York asked me what I want to do, and I responded with, 'I want to make...
AUSTIN STOWELL

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to g...
VILLE VALO

For me, honestly, one of the first movies I did I was always pounding coffee, and I crashed so horri...
NICK SWARDSON

I want to make you smile. For real. Always. We're going to go for dinners, and see movies, and walk ...
K.A. TUCKER

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the...
SPIKE JONZE

I grew up with a lot of monster movies, robot movies, since I was a kid. I love anime movies, like &...
RINKO KIKUCHI

My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I want...
TATE DONOVAN

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

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