Movie Quotes

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

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.

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

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!

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.

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 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.

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

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'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'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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

Honestly, I'm not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the 'Indiana Jones' trilogy.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.

I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world.

Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.