Movie Quotes

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

And at points in the movie, John Cena is actually impervious to bullets!

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

Bro, it's dark. You can't go to a strange building with a mysterious address in the dark. Haven't you ever seen a horror movie?

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

I think it's a big chance to take to make a movie that's about as something as pure and honest and something people can relate to everyday.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

The one-liner of this movie [ The Hollars], you've probably heard before: 'A guy goes home to his family and finds out about himself.

One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.

I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the movie you find out what they were about, and it makes absolutely perfect sense from their point of view.

Kind of the critical acclaim of this movie [La La Land] is that it's striking a chord with the public in a way that has been really beautiful and powerful.

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

I did an HBO movie called Undefeated that I directed. It was too hard.

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

I like very much to do movies.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

Eventually, in the editing movie you have to look at it as if you hadn't written it. So, you have to be a bit more brutal.

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.

Sometimes people can't afford to work for you, or they're not interested or available, and you hate to have written the whole movie with somebody in mind and not get them.

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.

I love fun movies that also have something to say. They tend to stay with me, always.

One of the nice things about having a lover, it makes you think about everything anew. The rest of your life becomes a kind of movie, flat and even rather funny.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again.

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.

Going after any movie there is a lot of competition to try and get it.

We're going to do a challenge. I'm going to try and download every movie ever made and you are going to try to sign up for Obamacare - and we'll see which happens first.

Julie Christie was absolutely amazing in Away From Her. Brilliant movie. It was the moving story of a woman who forgets her own husband. Hillary Clinton calls it the feel good movie of the year.

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges.

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.

I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.

I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.