Movie Quotes

You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.

I would by no means call myself an expert or say that I'm extremely into superhero movies, but I've pretty much seen every Avengers movie and Iron Man, so I'd say a good amount.

The nature of a movie story is you have to keep charging forward and keep the audience with the story.

I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.

But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

I like some superhero movies, but I have to say that they all feel the same to me. I've seen them a million times. They're all the same movie.

It's easy to make a pirate copy when you have digital tapes of things. And it was so complicated and complex to go through all the post-production of a movie without ever going digital.

I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.

Genres give a vocabulary. They give a frame of reference for the audience to enter into a movie. Then, once they have their footing, that's when you can start doing things that they don't expect.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit.

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

You won't believe how many people have congratulated me around the world for shooting a movie in 2D. It's bizarre. It's the strangest thing.

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

For me the Blu-ray version is kind of the definitive version of the movie.

Certainly there's pressure while your making the movie.

You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.

I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.

I think that while you're making the film it's important to just keep your eye on the ball and make the best movie you can, and then realize that it's out of your control.

Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged them.

I just think we live in a world where people are so excited about the hot new thing, but you can't necessarily tell a story in one movie. With this platform, we can really dive deep and go for it.

Sometimes you do things for personal reasons. I made a very personal movie in We Are Marshall. I was afraid of flying, for a long time, and that's a movie about a plane crash.

You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.

The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.

I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing.

Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

Each film is difficult, in its own particular way. There's a unique set of challenges on every movie.

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

Music plays a huge role in the movie. The music in Star Wars, I can't imagine what the movie would have been like without it. It made the film.

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.

You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.

The rules are very important in a horror movie.

I think “Batman Begins” is certainly my favorite Batman movie I’ve seen.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.