Movie Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.

Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better.

I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

I love any movie that has a retarded person working at Starbucks.

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination

My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

Sometimes we get too caught up in wanting to do that one movie that will get seen and approved and nominated, that we lose sight that there are so many other movies that are worth your time.

I never know when I'll find myself jumping out of a helicopter or something. It's like we're making a new action movie every week, which is pretty thrilling.

I still feel like a little boy on the set, watching the movie magic being made.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

On my show, I'm definitely the youngest one. So going from a show where everyone is over 30, to the movie, where everyone was like 20, 25, it was like summer camp.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me.

I think being a movie star is about whether an audience can watch you and care about you.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually

Its a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers,' it can feel like you're doing three movies at once - which is tiring.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth.