Movie Quotes

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they'd give me some film."

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

Making a movie about one group of people isolates the larger majority. That's what I require of the projects that I'm involved with. I would not ever make a movie strictly for Latinos.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie.

This is all so exciting I've decided to keep making one movie every 36 years.

The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'

Love me, that's all I ask of you...

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie, I have a different experience.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,'' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs.

When you meet a director who wants to remake a movie, you have to ask, does he or she have an interesting vision and idea, something that intrigues you - is there a reason why we should do this?

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

The movie's not over till everybody's dead.

Going to a movie so you won't be offended is like eating potato chips made with Olestra; you avoid the dangers of the real thing, but your insides fill up with synthetic runny stuff.

No movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.

Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie.

[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

You're never going to truly wrap your head around things that take a lifetime to study while making a movie.

You know, I think people underestimate how miraculous getting a movie made is.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

You're wearing that hat? After all the magic I used to make your dress pretty?" ~Howl from the movie 'Howl's Moving Castle

When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

A movie should be as long as one can hold their bladder

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

I like really good movies, but I can enjoy a really bad movie, too.

I can't remember the last live-action, non-animated Christmas movie.

When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.

I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.

I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.