Movie Quotes

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time...

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

I love you. You're my only reason to stay alive... if that's what I am.

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it.

It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot." My mom's like, "Shut up, Chloe, watch the film!"

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

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.

Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.

Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job.

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

Chinas movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.

I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.

I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

I want to make my own movie.

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.

Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted.

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

Every single movie that I've ever done has affected my life; I always feel more changed by a character than I affect them or change them, always. I mean, that's just kind of the way it is.

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