Movie Quotes

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.

When you go into a starring position and you're carrying a movie, it's important that people like it. So I only do things that I can connect with in some sort of way, or that I can identify with.

I do understand that going out and promoting the movie is a big responsibility, and part of the reason they give me the job in the first place.

Success for me is just having a job and have the studio feel confident that I can go out there and make a movie that people will enjoy.

I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.

Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.

I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are. I'm much more open and trusting than, say, my daughter is.

Enjoy your popcorn and enjoy the show. It's just a movie, so have fun!

I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.

I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

My first movie was a movie that had a bunch of people dying in it - the typical popcorn movie. That's where I got my start.

I grew up in a big movie house, we watched movies all the time, so I had an awareness at a very young age that that was a job that you could have.

There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

It's the best part of the whole movie. John Malkovich with a pink pig is - you can't get better than that. Then John Malkovich alone and then you add a pink pig.

The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.

If you love movies, then you love America.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.

I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and if I'm in them, I'm usually losing.

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.

What we found is that Valentino is actually a tremendous star - almost a movie star, really, because he plays himself all the time. The camera loves him.

If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it." Do it! Because that means you may have something that's not the norm.

I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie was a lot like being in a theater company.

It's tough to have a movie-star persona when you're on a show as successful as 'Friends.'

In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.

'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.

People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!

Seeing movie people trying to get into TV now who don't understand that is very interesting.

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.

As long as I stay true to what I believe is a good movie and what is my vision, that's all I can do.

While shooting a movie if I can't find what I want, then I keep going until I find my moment.

Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as you and me. What's with that?

If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.

I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.