Movie Quotes

Hollywood called me, asking me, "How much to do a movie with Farrah Fawcett?" "$50,000" They called back, "How about $20,000?" I said, "I'll pay it!"

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.

There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're crouching and hidden.

They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.

Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness.

I'm not a movie star. I'm a brand name. Van Damme is like Levi's. I go on vacation, and everywhere I go, people love me for my name, not for my movies.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

I'm just really excited to promote the movie [I know The Chair ] and the show in a different way, and not just the typical Hollywood way, which I don't think I'll ever fit into.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike.

Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

I think I wanna do some action stuff down the road. I wanna kill some aliens. Something real fun, you know? Just a big, fun movie.

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.

I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

You've seen how actors make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.

Now, even when I see the trailers, I get so excited because it's like I'm seeing a movie that I haven't seen at all before, whatsoever. And then I just happen to be in it.

I lost you once, I think I can do it again.

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.

We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

I think zombies would fit in anywhere. You can tell any story, and put zombies in it. I don't know how I'd find the backing, but I think it'd be great to make a zombie gangster movie.

There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

I'm not a proponent of people watching a movie, and then going out and doing something bad. People have been doing bad things, well before movies.

I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.