Movie Quotes

It's frustrating sometimes for actors because you slam it out and you have a great time, you think it's funny, and then for whatever reason the movie doesn't come together.

My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

Making movies is nice, man. A movie with some money behind it? Sweet. So many snacks and stuff. Name-brand. And many different kinds of coffee.

My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.

Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.

When guys see a movie starring women, they go, "That must be filled with these characters I see in these movies who are such a drag." And that's just bad for everybody.

There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.

At the end of the day, I just want a movie that's great, that people are going to love and laugh at and be affected by, and also have an emotional journey.

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me

I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me

Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together

I'm not smart enough to write about something that didn't actually happen to me. But I couldn't write a space movie if you put a gun to my head.

I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt like I was making my first movie, all over again.

I had this movie, Death Race, that was a passion project for me that I'd had in development for almost ten years.

It's rare that a movie generally considered a popcorn type movie, gets recognized among such serious, great fare.

We're really soaking every moment in. And, then, you know... should the movie do as well as we all hope, we'll start thinking about a sequel to Deadpool.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

My absolute favorite movie of all time is Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' Nothing compares to it. I have seen it thousands of times and still watch it every few weeks.

If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies.

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

When I see those ads with the quote 'You'll have to see this picture twice,' I know it's the kind of picture I don't want to see once.

You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.

When I shot the movie, I wasn't gonna think about anything except for being the biggest knucklehead in the world.

Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.

Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

I can't believe I actually was in my own movie.

Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. Thats why they go into acting!

I'm Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker' - it's my favorite movie of all time.

Every movie has its own unique series of challenges.

One of the things that's fascinating about making movies is a movie when it's done and you start showing it to people, it reveals its impact, which is often times not what you thought.

It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

Movie 43 is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.

I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.

With the right movie, 3D can enhance the experience. Absolutely, it can make a good film a great film. It can make a great film a really amazing film to see .

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

Seeing a movie you're in is nothing like seeing a movie you're not in.