Movie Quotes

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog.

This is what many people in the movie industry don't get: when you express hostility to conservatives, many Americans feel that you're expressing hostility to them.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

I found Jumpy on YouTube. I wrote a movie about a guy with a dog and was like, "What have I done? This is going to be a nightmare. We're a small movie and we're never going to be able to do this."

You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.

Really, I wanted to make a movie [Valley Of Violence] about: How does violence affect people? This is a take from me on how violence affects people.

Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of.

I do think, even though I've made these genre movies, there's what happens in the movie and then there's what the movie's about. And for me, what the movie's about is so much more interesting.

We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could get, performance-wise.

It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.

I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's going great.

If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.

[Valley of Violence] was written for James Ransone. PJ's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time, he's always like, "Dude, when are we going to make a movie together?" I finally called him.

I don't generally watch the movie [ The House Of The Devil ]. It's sort of like hearing your voice on tape.

Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

I would just love to do 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I think that movie is fantastic.

There's people saying that 'Jackie Brown' was a blaxploitation movie, when there's nothing at all blaxploitation about it other than Pam Grier being in it.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

Working with kids is usually very fun. They get so into movie and they're up for anything. Usually they're having such an exciting experience, everybody feels that.

I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.

I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.

My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.

I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.

All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do that because I'm black.

I grew up in a big movie house, we watched movies all the time, so I had an awareness at a very young age that that was a job that you could have.

My first movie was a movie that had a bunch of people dying in it - the typical popcorn movie. That's where I got my start.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

I had such a good time doing that movie [Sister Act 2]. My daughter's in that movie. It was a fun film to do. And it shocked a lot of people, because they loved it, and they take it with them.

I'm going to go talk to some people to see if you could be in the movie because you should be in the movie.

The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie.

There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.

My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.