Movie Quotes

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.

Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.

Nobody's going to like my next movie because they liked Trainwreck [2015]. It has to work on its own, and that keeps it really scary.

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

I start thinking about the next movie before it's a success, so I can never have one moment of happiness or peace. I'm instantly thinking about the next one.

I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm just trying to put good things out there.

When you make a movie, you just send it off into the world. You never actually live it with the crowd.

When you're making your 20th movie, it might be the 20th most incredible thing that's ever happened to you!

Filming is completely - was totally new to me ... I had a movie career which wasn't supposed to be, so I couldn't be more thrilled. For those who work, parts seem to get more interesting.

I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.

It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever.

If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.

When I'm making a movie, I don't like to know what's going to happen next. I like to watch something and be surprised all the time, and just not know, and let it take me wherever.

The movie [Miral] is not pro-Palestinian. It's about Palestinians. It's a Palestinian story, written by a Palestinian person. I don't know anybody else that could have done that

Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

Sometimes you have to think about what you're going to say, in real life, so when you see that thought process going on in a movie, it feels real and looks real.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

Ever since there's been a Hollywood, they remake a movie every 20 years.

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.

You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.

When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do I want for this book?"

It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.

We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.

When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.

I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.

I think film should be interactive. But at the same time, it's also great to go see a big popcorn movie and be taken to a complete fantasy world.

I like to leave the movie theater and still be thinking about the film and questioning why the character did that.

I have yet to meet a person whose favorite movie is Gigli, but I hope to meet them one day and give them a hug.

When you find any great project - if it's onstage or it's a movie or a television show or whatever it might be, if it's wonderful, then that sort of transcends what the medium is.

I think my favorite movie is Joe Versus the Volcano - or maybe Multiple Maniacs by John Waters.

It's definitely surreal to watch yourself in a movie.

When you hear a famous voice, sometimes that takes me out of the movie.

I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this movie, and that's the way I approach my films.

If the characters [in a movie] aren't real, if their lives aren't realistic, if you call bullshit at any point in their journey, then the rest of it is invalid.

People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

I love that in this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], you almost want to go and hang out with this family.

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

This movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is as much for the general market as it is for Latino audiences. That's a really exciting prospect.