Movie Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

"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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

'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 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.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law.

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.

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

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

If you dress like a movie star, you have me.

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

I'm ready to see that new RZA movie [The Man With The Iron Fists] too, it looks kind of Tarantino-ish.

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

I've made one or two movies that I haven't even seen, because they were never released. I have made things that I never even saw. But I will always go see the movie I'm in.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.