Movie Quotes

First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.

I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I still work really hard, but I like to think I'm a little smarter about at least the type of movie I'm getting into.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

Every movie I've ever made has just kind of come together.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

My thing is when we're doing a movie or TV show, I just want to go in and look at it and go, "That was great."

Whether it's a popcorn movie or some really intellectual sociopolitical movie, I think to some degree they're all influenced by the social climate that we're living in.

I'm probably one of the most co-dependent people around. That's why I made a movie about it, and I live it every day.

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

It's hard to define somebody by one movie. I mean, unfortunately, my entire life was basically made by Billy Elliot. It was kind of created by that one catalytic moment.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

I was born in 1934 and I didn't make my first movie until 1954.

I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?

When your movie is hot, your options are crazy.

It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.

I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just hang out and joke around, like I would normally, but I had to try to find the movie to shoot.

The challenge, and also what I like most about a big ensemble movie, is that all actors have completely different processes and all of them prefer scenes to be done a different way.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

'American Dream' is a small little movie made for under a million dollars. Totally independent feature.

I am really indoors-y. I am a video game and movie buff, and this keeps me in my little boy cave.

I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.

I was always a very indoor videogame nerd movie buff... Now I've come to appreciate Scouts and the outdoors.

I'm kind of a huge movie buff and a video game nerd person.

I would love to direct a movie, something I really like with a great cast. What a dream!

I think everybody would love to say they were in a movie. Whether or not I'm any good at it, I don't know.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

Everywhere you turn, you see me in a movie, and I'm sorry. At this point, people must be saying, 'God, Biggs again? Can't we get away from this guy?'

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

I try to work with people who you're not used to seeing in scary movies. I think it makes for a more interesting mix, when you're watching the movie.

The only way I think about kids in production is practically, the younger the kids are the harder it is to shot the movie.

Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.

I'm a believer in screening movies early, and using the movie itself to help sell the movie. If you can't do that, I feel like you shouldn't be releasing the movie.

But, yeah, I'd love to do something else in someone else's movie.

It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.

Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.

I liked the movie Splash a lot when I was little. I think we taped it when it was on TV, and then would watch the movie fairly often.