Movie Quotes

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies?

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

I won't kill you but I don't have to save you.

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

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.

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.

The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.

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

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.

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

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.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Director Oliver Stone says he's going to make a movie about Vladimir Putin. I can't believe anyone would want to work with that insane communist. And Putin is a little crazy as well.

Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me.

Directing a movie is the greatest job in the world. I could not be more envious of the guys who get to do it all the time.

I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.

Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it.

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned