Movie Quotes

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

I know in this day and age, when you meet men, they often want to be boys. They dress like boys. And it's very confusing. I can't offer any solution except to make a movie about it.

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.

As a father, I wanted to make a movie that my kids can love.

I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.

Since I started making movies, I've had to hear a million times, "When are you going to do a comedy?" I think I feel more comfortable in another kind of movie.

I never wondered whether I should be a stage actress or a movie actress.

We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

But I'm grateful for everyone who would want to read a spoiler because it means that they care and want to see the movie. I know what it feels like, as an enormous Star Wars fan myself.

Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are not going to get some sort of political statement or ultra-deep message.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

I don't think anyone wants a movie on time that's not worth your time.

I’m confident enough in my masculinity and sexuality that I can say that Ryan Gosling is just dreamy in this movie.

I've never watched The Notebook either. Not big on romance flicks," I admitted, opening the huge cartons. "Really? I thought every girl has seen that movie and can quote it at a drop of a hat.

A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.

When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.

I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

Every movie presents its challenges.

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.

You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.

That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

My favorite movie of all time is 'Home Alone 3.'

I went to the Avengers: Age of Ultron and I'm like, "These guys are Olympians now." There's no place for a Walter Matthau in a movie anymore.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

I love 'Training Day' - that's a great movie.

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

For the most part, however, Lady in the Water comes across as a movie that's too bad to be good, and not bad enough to be so bad that it's good.

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

I never want to make a movie which is going to be CG filled, cold, and computerized.

With 'Avatar,' I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys' adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John Carter of Mars - a soldier goes to Mars.