Movie Quotes

Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.

The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America.

I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.

I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

I think people use temp music quite a bit, but the people who write the temp music don't ever really learn that their music was inspiring a movie.

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It's sort of that romanticized version of it.

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

I tried to find a character and how I would be an American actress in the 30s. But if this was a talking movie [The Artist], I'm sure she would be exactly the same for me.

I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

If you just think Donnie Darkos a weird movie, you don't want to think. You don't want to feel your feelings. So yeah, I do want to shake 'em up.

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

Don Knotts left [Andy Griffith Show] to pursue a movie career, so once he was gone I left too.

In 1986, when they made the TV movie, Return to Mayberry, Barney and Thelma Lou did get married!

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

I would say the biggest difference is that you're just in a studio by yourself when you're making an animated movie. You don't have anybody to play off of.

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie.

The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else.

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

This never gets old, and when it does, I'll go do a movie. I like the fact that I can get into other projects because everything feels fresh when I come back to music.

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.

Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.

I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

Normally you're 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you're a movie star. That didn't happen for me. So it was all quite overwhelming.

I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're going to know that and you're going to be really panicked.

Now the idea in the movie world is to make things the same. And in the TV world, the idea is to do something different, so... that's why I'm here!

I just believe in the movie. I don't care what the book was like. I don't care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I've got.

I've been very lucky because I've always had movies to do. So if I got bored between shows a movie would turn up.

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

When I saw the first video iPod, I thought this could have the same impact VHS/home video had on the movie business.

You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.