Movie Quotes

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

There's no great technical expertise in being a movie producer.

I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.

Whatever I do, I like making good movies because I like to watch good movies. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called "Love for Sale," and that was my first role in any film.

The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.

My dad took me to my first movie.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

I've got to read the 'Hunger Games' before I see the movie.

I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.

Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.

The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown.

I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.

Making a movie: It's so hard. It's the hardest of all the things I do.

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

They really cut to the chase in the urologist's examination room, and I tried to laugh. If this office were a movie, it would have been rated R.

If you're trying to be realistic and bring real life to the screen, you are going to have different elements. That's what I'm trying to do. As I make the movie, different elements come in naturally.

I love horror movies. A good horror movie is always great.

Making a movie is like getting married. You're like, "Am I going to marry this project? Am I ready for that kind of commitment?"

I am always going to be a theater actor at heart. One of my career goals is to do "Shakespeare in the Park" someday but for now I am really excited to get working on another movie.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to.

I figure if kids see a movie about 12-year-olds chopping each other up, they can probably see a movie where everyone keeps their clothes on and doesn't use foul language.

I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.

Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines.

And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.

I'm not the worlds biggest remake guy, meaning finding titles and saying, "Hey it's got some brand awareness, let's just make a movie."

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

Were there certain things that I didn't feel were dignified enough to make it into the movie? Yeah.

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