Movie Quotes

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.

I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

You know, I've never shot a gun in a movie.

I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.

The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Being a movie star is a rare job. Nobody gives you any guarantees that you'll get to do it forever. It's a very lucky and privileged position to be in.

Robert De Niro, even though I've been in two other movies with him, I never really got to know him at all. But on this movie ["The Big Wedding"] I did.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

I have not seen Al Gore's movie.

I never made a good movie.

My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'

If no producer, no movie.

I got asked to remix a lot of movie themes, like Mission Impossible, which other people ended up doing quite well. But it was just never my thing.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

In my career, whether it's a big or a small movie, when I've worked on something for a long time, like [Ivan] Drago in Rocky IV, they start to take on a life of their own.

I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

My favorite movie of all time is probably Apocalypse Now.

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum.

It's a very serious endeavor for me [to play in the same movie with my son]. It's not for a lot of people. It was a wonderful job. I've wanted to do it since I can remember.

I'm a fan of good horror movies.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.

It is my conviction that movie stars are not entitled to any rights of privacy.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no spots on my conscience about.

The motion picture Deadpool was my favorite funny movie of [2016]. Something that I could just watch over and over again, because it's just so... he says so many things.

I was immediately into all the great movie comedians - Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder. Everything those guys had anything to do with, from I don't know how young. Super young.

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.

At the end of the day, I like the spy genre, as opposed to the action movie genre, because spies are smart. The successful spies are the smarter spies.

A movie is the product of the chemistry of the people that make it. Whatever that core group of people is, that becomes the DNA of the movie.

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in the movie, what's happening emotionally and what they want in the scene.

I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.

I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.

I do enjoy the puzzle-solving aspect of making a movie.

As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people will let you.

Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had.