Movie Quotes

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.

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

I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie.

It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.

"Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.

The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos.

I feel just like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. You know, except for the whole hooker thing.

When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

Nic [Cage] is more than just a fantastic actor. He will get your movie made. The first thing that we did is that we went to producers and there were a lot of great producers.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.

You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.

You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.

No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.

Zach Galifianakis is a comic force of nature! He is terrific. He digs down here and delivers a beautifully nuanced performance that gets under your skin. Just like the movie.

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie."

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it.

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most recently.

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.