Movie Quotes

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

'Insane Farting Corpse' is a really hard movie to do a Q&A for. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask."

Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.

If we had a completely found footage feel, with no editing, then we would have a twenty four hour movie and that doesn't really work either.

If you offer me a starring role in a movie, I have no interest.

Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

I took part of Alan Silvestri's theme on the original movie, which I really liked, and I pulled it into it new theme, which became kind of a hybrid. I really enjoyed that.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

I would have been content with still playing Inmate #1. I worked on every prison movie made, from 1985 to 1991. I would go from movie to movie to movie.

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?

I walked out of the movie "Lincoln" and bought the book [of Doris Kearns Goodwin] at the bookstore next door.

Honestly, I don't aspire to be a huge movie star. I really just fell in love with acting... Everything I do on-screen is very subtle.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.

It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and everybody has different tastes.

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.

The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.

When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.

Even the scrutiny is good because it lets you know the world cares about your movie, and there is interest in it.

Every movie is different. Every movie requires its own sort of photographic voice.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

The longer you work in this business [movie], the more you start to be able to see the carpentry. You can see where things are going, and it's harder to surprise you, as a reader

I'm not a movie-based person, in terms of how it affects my career, the industry. I don't care about that. I probably haven't been too smart about that.

I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.

The movie I've seen the most times, boy, that's a tough one. It would have to be a toss-up between Apocalypse Now and the first Star Wars. I think the first Star Wars.

The problem of criticism is not judgment but evocation - conveying the particular emotional and visual feel that the movie has.

I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.

One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is "out there" in the same way that a movie camera would.

Some reviewed 'The Master' on their knees, and while I respected its distinctive discordancy - can a movie be at once feverish and glacial? - I was unmoved.

The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.

The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

I think American Werewolf in London is the greatest werewolf movie of all time.

But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.

I like to say, in Hollywood, you can't make a redneck movie without me. That doesn't happen. You better not do it.

[10 Things I Hate About You] was the most fun I ever had making a movie. Everyone got along really, really well from day one. It was like summer camp.

Obviously [Can't Hardly Wait] wasn't in American Pie, which was a movie about some teenage boys.

Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.