Movie Quotes

I would love to interview Roberto Benigni just so I could tell him how much his movie, life is beautiful, meant to me.

I don't have a least favorite [movie] or favorite anything except love versus non-love. Love's my favorite, non-love's my least favorite.

BBC had tried to develop the book, set in England, as a two-hour movie. I went to a meeting and they said, "Look at this," and I thought the book was outstanding. I was like, "Can I do this?"

I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody!

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

After returning from his stint in the minors made reference to the movie Slapshot with: I'm happy to be back. It was never my aspiration as a kid to play in the Federal league.

The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.

Jon Hamm was the first I thought of for the other role in [Keeping Up with the Joneses], I recently worked with him on Clear History, an HBO improv movie that we had done together.

One of the dangers of making a movie about young people is it's potentially trite.

I feel like I'm long overdue for a "one for me" movie, so I've got two low-budget indy personal things I'm working on.

I'm really glad to have made a movie that way on Superbad, because I learned a lot about what can be done and what the limitations are.

After seeing Avatar the movie, you see how far it can go to be right. But you kind of see that and go, "Oh, there's the bar now, and how close can we get?"

You just make the best movie you can and hope for the best, because you don't have any control over what happens with the movie, whether the movie is misinterpreted.

It takes a while to get a movie together, and they dont start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.

Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.

I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

It feels like when I write, it's intuitive. This is true of Frances, and it's true of this [The Funniest Movie Of The Summer].

If you're with one person, then you don't have to meet other people. It's like when you're acting in a movie, you don't have to audition for other movies. I prefer that.

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

I try to nap through as much of it as possible. I didn't even know about my Christmas movie until this February.

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.

I have "fat-guy syndrome." If they give me $50 million to make a movie, I'll try to make it look like it cost a hundred. If they give me $60 million, I'll try to make it look like it cost $120.

Somebody said to me, in a very well-meaning way, at a screening, "We love the movie but it's too violent. If you tone down the violence you could reach a great audience of kids.".

With every movie I produce, I learn something. I watch the directors. It's like the relationship you have with your children. I'm there to learn from my daughters. They are the perfect spirits.

Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it's gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out.

A movie that gets a PG-13 rating can show someone running down a street killing 27 people. And there are no repercussions.

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again.

I'm vain enough to want do a movie again, but right now more roles are the last thing on my list.

My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months.

I try to do things where I'm going to feel challenged in some way. I only really do one movie a year.

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

More and more, even with a measure of success, I'm not sure what it is people are seeing when they see a movie I've made.

I'm often uncertain of what's expected of a movie.

There's an Elvis movie on the marquee sign, we've all seen at least three times.