Movie Quotes

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.

I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

I think I understand the line between my job and the director's. I have no interest in directing. Not my movie, not your movie, nobody's movie.

My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails.

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.

The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have. Then, you go off to make the movie and you become so lost in it.

We were shooting this movie called "Hardball," with Keanu Reeves. We shot in the city, and I just remember I couldn't really do too much. At 13 or 14, you couldn't go out to any nightlife.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.

The thing about the movie 'Navy SEALs' is that it was just such a waste. The script could've been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.

You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the movie," Puck said.

I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

I really don't have favorites; I'm just a fan of movies, period.

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.

If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

There's people saying that 'Jackie Brown' was a blaxploitation movie, when there's nothing at all blaxploitation about it other than Pam Grier being in it.

You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

This is what many people in the movie industry don't get: when you express hostility to conservatives, many Americans feel that you're expressing hostility to them.

The movie theater is never going away. If that was a case why are there still restaurants? People still have kitchens in their home!

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

Were there certain things that I didn't feel were dignified enough to make it into the movie? Yeah.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

I am always going to be a theater actor at heart. One of my career goals is to do "Shakespeare in the Park" someday but for now I am really excited to get working on another movie.

I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.

That's what the internet is: it's like bombarding your eyeballs with these myriad blinking colour lights. It's like trying to watch a movie on your phone in the middle of Times Square.

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.

I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.

There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.

You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.