Movie Quotes

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!

You can't tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn't somehow tied to his name. You're not going out to see a Kevin Hot-Dog movie.

The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new to you, and that's the magic of being transported.

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.

I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

Mel Gibson's father doesn't think there was a Holocaust? Great. I don't think there's a movie. We're even.

I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

Sometimes, you really don't understand why something is important to you until you get halfway through the movie - or maybe even all the way through.

It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.

I think it's cool when Scorsese will pop up in a movie or something like that. I never want to make a career out of that or anything. I like directing. That's my favorite thing.

I was in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in the '60s.

When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.

One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.

I really have to feel that I could make a difference in the movie, or I shouldn't be doing it.

I've always felt that I shouldn't make a movie if someone else could do it better.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie stars, who are smoking in many of their movies.

There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of cigarettes.

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

If it's the first kiss, it's important for the eyes to be closed so you know it's real. It's almost like a Disney movie!

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end.

Basically you want as many people as possible to see your movie.

I think you're always afraid when you go into like a big superhero movie that it's gonna be kinda just action and you're not gonna be able to just really go to the bottom of the characters.

Real movie producers arent this nice.

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

I love my iPad. I'll see television shows that I have missed and I'll download them through iTunes. If there is an older movie that I want to watch right away, I can download that movie and watch it.

I rather would prefer to see the movie theatrically, which I have the ability to do.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.'

I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.

To watch a movie in 3D when it's not really planned in 3D is disturbing sometimes.

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

One of the really nice things about having the time to do a movie is that you can fine tune it. With TV, you really need A-level people to make a good TV show because it's moving so fast.

If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

A script is like a theory of a movie.

I think that's some of the stuff that we kind of joke on in the movie, this obsession; number one, winning is everything, number one, number one.

I think just getting a movie done is an accomplishment in itself.

To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.