Movie Quotes

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

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

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

Every time you make a movie you have to confront your fears.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.

I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.

One Direction's 3D movie has more shirtless moments than you can imagine

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!

Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.

There are not that many people in the movies today that really make me go out and buy a movie ticket.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

You are your own superstar, and only you can shape the movie that you make.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?