Movie Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

With Scary Movie 4 I couldn't say no because I loved being in the first one and even though it is a cameo, it's so worth it because it is so much fun to do.

The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I spent time on turns out to be crap, it's never going to be made again.

I would be lying if I didn't admit there might be a scene in the movie where there might be alcohol in my system.

If there is Katrina Kaif in any film, the movie is a hit

You don't just see and feel the movie, you see and feel every day you worked on it.

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.

Theres nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one

It was like a bad movie except he didn’t actually twirl his mustache.” -Jace to Maryse about Valentine, pg.122-

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That's why I keep making them.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I'll kind of sidle up and see what they're saying, what they look like, how they sound. That's an invasion of privacy.

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

A play that works well and is done quite a lot - I've never done the math - but it's probably more remunerative than a movie.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made...

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

I've been wanting to make a movie about the war in Sierra Leone, specifically, for more than 15 years.

The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred.

I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.