Movie Quotes

My biggest dream is to be able to be in a movie or some great TV show where I get to dance, and it's about a contemporary dancer of some kind.

When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

There's no great movie where you haven't been emotionally connected to the main character.

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

The trick with sequels is, you have to give people what they liked before, yet be innovative enough so they don't feel like they're seeing the same movie.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them.

What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.

I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie [42]. I wouldn't lie to you.

We also had an "in" with MTV those days. Tara Reid was engaged to Carson Daly. She just called him and was like, "Do you want to be in the movie?" So they kind of had to make it work.

I specialize in cool inside movie news. Specifically, the news from movies that excite us fans.

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the movie.

It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.

You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.

I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in their life and enjoying a show or a movie.

I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.

Everyone wants to be a movie star or a model, to be in the papers, but few realise just what hard work it is, getting up early, and so on.

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene.

Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.

It was the most amazing opportunity to work on a period movie and transform Anthony Hopkins into Hitchcock.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

It's tough to watch a movie you're in - you put everything into it, you want everything to work, and you never know until you see it all together.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I really think the key to any movie is that you tell the story kind of in a fulsome way, with depth, with skill, and you will find your audience.

When you're making any movie, you have your hopes and expectations - but reality doesn't always conform with your hopes and expectations.

One of the hardest things for me as an exec was always, particularly as you progress further in the system, is that you're pushed further away from the day to day, the mechanics of making a movie.

A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.

We respect everybody's individual opinion, and we have so much respect for veterans. We're probably one of the biggest movie employer of veterans.

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV.

When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.

I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.

I think that my "Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie!" attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes.

You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.

The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.