Movie Quotes

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.

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.

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

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

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.

It's a movie depiction you don't want to screw up.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

If you find a TV series that you like, you like the tone of the TV series or the movie.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

If the movie is terrible, then the 3D sucks. If the movie is fantastic, then the 3D is good.

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

I'm so proud to have work in this movie, "Brokeback Mountain," a movie that once again shows us that love is what makes us all very similar in spite that we can be so different, too.

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

I can see close up and my husband can see far away, so we're covered. He tells me who's in the movie and I tell him what's in his sandwich. Together we're human bifocals.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

I also love Australian movies. I love Muriel's Wedding - I've seen in six times. Baz Luhrmann's best movie is strictly ballroom... without question.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.

Nothing would make my kids happier than to do another movie.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.