Movie Quotes

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.

I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.

For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously always going around with stories that happen in one location.

If you do any thriller or horror movie a big part of the process is accounting for the cell phone.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.

Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?

I went to see that movie 'From Hell,' or as Osama bin Laden calls it - 'Roots.'

Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.

OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It's a typical French movie with typical French themes with French actors, a French director.

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

If you have made three or four films, my feeling is, he is older than me because I am still making my first movie. That helps me.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

Every couple of years we'll watch the movie and it's like watching home movies, seeing the ranch on-screen. But that movie Heaven's Gate, people are appreciating it more and more as time goes on.

I loved working with my brother [Beau] and my father [Lloyd] whenever that happened. I had a wonderful experience making "The Fabulous Baker Boys," which I felt was a great movie, too.

At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption.

You want to be in a movie where your part works. That's the main thing. No matter how you beat yourself working on the thing, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.

Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity.

You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.

I'm very committed to and interested in CNN's journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.

I'm not a big movie-goer. I just feel like I'm watching work.

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it.

I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.