Movie Quotes

I love family. In this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], my character is a successful OB-GYN and yet she goes back to her teenage years when she's with her parents. Like, that's me.

[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing off as "a woman's life ends when she finds the right guy".

I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

The only control you have over a movie is whether or not you decide to sell the rights.

I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

I always wanted to be a movie actress. I thought it was very romantic. And it was.

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

I know what a good question would be for an actor. What's your least favorite thing that you've ever heard an actor say about acting? Or about being in a movie?

I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.

There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

The story of survival is a nice metaphor for our experience making this movie, finding your inner strength and powering through and getting to the endpoint alive.

I finished The Freebie, which was a small relationship "talky" movie, and I was like, "I just want to get out of the house! And I want there to be some action, and I want some tension in there!"

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like “Spy Kids.”

I think I want to pursue a movie career and maybe even pursue some theatre.

I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2

In the movie, you're moving, you have personality, you don't have to be great looking.

The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I've done one movie, I've done that, move on.

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

With each movie [Twilight saga], we went in trying to explore that character a little deeper, or in a different sense. But, at the same time, there was a comfort in knowing that you know this person.

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels.

Tori joined us for dinner --in body, at least. She spent the meal practicing for a role in the next zombie movie, expressionless, methodically moving fork to mouth, sometimes even with food on it.

Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.

Most movie stars don't change their look at all.

I ain't gonna get this, it's a horror movie, it's hard to act scared.

It has never ever been a bad thing in Hollywood to be sleeping with a director who's just won an Oscar or the hot new movie star whose face is on the cover of 'Time' magazine.

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.

I do think it [the Waitress] speaks in a positive way for women and it was surprising for me to see it for the first time as a movie all put together with music. I really liked it a lot.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

The nice thing about a video game is that you can explore the dimensions of a character so much more deeply than you can in a television show or even in a movie.

It's never bothered me to work hard. I've probably worked on some of the longest schedules in movie history.

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.

I look at it [Scream movie] and think, wow, I can't believe I wrote that at such a young age. I also look at it and go, ohhh ouch, that dialogue, whoa.

Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same thing.' And this movie is certainly the embodiment of that.

I am capable of holding the quote-unquote 'title' of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.