Movie Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie of all time.

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.

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

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

There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

I'd hate to compare art to life but I think a movie is an entity of its own, and when it's done, you want everybody to like it like you want everybody to like your children.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies

Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey!

I'll always stand by the first [Batman]. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

It wasnt the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say theyve played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in!

tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.

Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.

Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie.

New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.

You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.