Movie Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

The path between intention to watch a movie and the purchase of a ticket - I want to make it as short as possible. The holy grail is Amazon One Click. One tap and I own it.

In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

I don't believe that less fortunate people should have to wait until a movie is released on public TV for free, while richer people get to see it months in advance.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.

I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

Making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

I have been working on this movie [Moana] since before Hamilton happened.

I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

I did a movie 'I Love You, Man' and it got great reviews; it was very enjoyable.

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

In addition, I'm finishing a track for the movie 'Waking Up In Reno', but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.