Movie Quotes

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

I relate to any prison movie, as long as it has some authenticity.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

The way I feel about you, it's like I finally understand what Lionel Richie is singing about. I mean, what we have, it's like movie love.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16.

I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me.

I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

I'm not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them.

Someone needs to make a zombie movie where when you get bit it turns you into a singing and dancing extraordinaire.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

A lot of the commercials that I was doing were very slice-of-life, emotional, documentary-style, not big and cinematic and ultimately like the kind of movie I wanted to make.

Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.

The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.

Hollywood's a business, and until someone puts their finger on you and decides you're the guy who's going to carry that movie, it's not going to happen.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.

The Lego Movie: Merely a great film, or the greatest film ever in the history of cinema?

I want to play Wonder Woman really badly. I want them to make the movie of Wonder Woman, and I want to play Wonder Woman so bad. Thatd be really fun.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

I love just being passionate about something rather than just caring about the money or whos in the movie.

I think you direct a movie just to express your own self.

It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments.

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.

When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

Make a movie that you can be proud of.

The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment

Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

Its interesting, the things you learn when youre 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if youre not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

I didn't fill it up with movies every time because I was trying to just film one damn movie, but that's the heartache of independent films.

My favorite movie, one of 'em is [Notorious]. I love Scarface as well. I've got a lot of mob movies.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress

America puts killers on the cover of Time magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

First of all, you make a movie that you want to see and then you just hope for the best.