Movie Quotes

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.

We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

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

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

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

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.

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!

Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars.

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.

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!

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.

I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top -- and never fell off.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

I think title sequences are an opportunity to sort of set the stage or to get people thinking in different terms than maybe whatever they understand the movie to be going in.

I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

There is a time for scientists and movie stars and those who have flown the atlantic to restrain their opinions lest they be taken more seriously than they should be.

I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.