Movie Quotes

The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'

I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49 and turn it into a movie.

I'd love to go to school, but every time I try I get a movie. That's actually how I get work: I enroll. That's like my good luck charm.

I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie.

The Incredibles was the best movie ever made. Ever. Made. BSTL.

I think certain movies are right for 3D. I think certain movies are not right for 3D. And I think the specialness of 3D will be worn off if every movie becomes 3D.

I think that when audiences find a movie that they don't expect to like, it adds great word of mouth.

But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.

To me, the movie is about power.

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

I'd love to be some sort of villain in a big-budget action movie. Or a superhero franchise. That'd be rad.

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It's like, well, they're deleted because they're not good or you lost the battle and you couldn't put them in the movie.

I don't believe in director's cuts and I also don't really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that's what the director made.

Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I think all my Star Trek movies are very earthbound.

Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

Every video you see in the movie we have an entire video of it that will be on the DVD, so the whole video for African Child, the whole video for Super Tight, you know the Jackie Q songs.

Yes, the fans are going to get their money's worth. It's like...and everything on there is funny. It's not like random crap they put in a movie. I think it's all very funny, so.

Horror is so basic. You'd get an adrenaline jolt from watching your mom get gored by a woolly mammoth. A horror movie gives you the adrenaline without having to have your mom get gored.

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

I'd like to play the voice of the Iron in the Monopoly movie.

It's the independent movies. Most of these people never even got a wrap party on their movie.

Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz.

Sometimes you find that there is better material in small and more independent movies. There's more risk-taking.

That means I gotta fly like a movie no commercial That's Young Money, Cash Money yeah I'm universal

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.

When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure.

All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.

I really think it's important that my beliefs don't impinge upon what you get from the movie. It's your opinion that matters and it's far more interesting than mine.

I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

I think that television has become really, really interesting, in terms of character development. You can have 13 hours to develop a character, as opposed to 25 minutes in a movie. That excites me.

In a way "Drive" is probably the greatest superhero movie ever made.

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.