Movie Quotes
I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know
I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.
'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.
It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.
Few years ago I did a movie, Good Kill, about drone pilots and for four or five months I'm obsessed with the Air Force.
When you make a movie with Alejandro Amenábar, he very quickly... it was very clear you're kind of operating in his dream universe.
The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.
American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered such movies as 'Like Mike' and 'New York Minute' with the Olsen twins
Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.
No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.
You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.
The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.
The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.
As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.
It's very hard to admit that the choice of 3D technology can play an important role for the director while he's thinking about the movie. But it does play a big role.
For me, the best part is people who watch the movie and tell me it inspired them to collaborate with their friend who's a photographer or filmmaker.
I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go.
For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences
The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.
I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.
If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.
I know that sometimes you have to reason with yourself and say, "This is just TV" or "This is just a movie," but I think also as an actor it's your job to find it so very important.
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.
The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it.
I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.
oh mothers you will have made the little tykes so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies they won't know the difference and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy
Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.
I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.
If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.
The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.
I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.
A movie is a diamond and suddenly someone is seeing this facet or that facet. No matter how good you think you are, there's stuff you're not seeing.
Jay Carney told the reporters at his morning briefing that he hoped they would watch the new movie about Obama's first term 'many times.' They might. Look how well 'Titanic' did at the box office.
It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.
The world that you see is like a motion picture. We are engrossed in a film and we have forgotten that we're sitting in a movie theatre.
Be neither attracted nor repulsed. You are watching a movie. If the visions are beautiful or horrible, Don't get caught up in them. Enjoy your popcorn.
A better name for nirvana might be endless love. Love not even in the sense that we see it if we're watching the romantic movie, but love in a sense of no absence.
The ultimate horror movie for a really un-illuminated being is an enlightened person. They are scared of others seeing what they are all about and what they really do. They are scared of truth.
My goal was just to live a good life that I was happy with. And I wasn't exactly sure that that meant being the star of a movie.