Movie Quotes

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.

The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.

Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities

When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

We as women are always watching movies and if you want to be cool you have to identify with the man in the movie.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium.

I want to have a movie where people's eyes are glued to the screen, not when they're running from the screen.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

Valentines Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think its more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do not date that person again. And if you like it, there may not be a second date.

If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.

I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.

I was, it was very high. Especially with international (box office), we did something that I didn't think this movie ["2012"] would do. I was very happy.

I'm doing a much smaller movie. It's set in Germany and it's a totally different subject matter. I'm trying to break it up.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

When I get stuck, I take a long walk outside or go to a movie. I get out of my own way so I can hear the quiet voices that hold all of the answers that connect the dots.

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is On The Road, does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling.

Your life has more blue in it than a James Cameron movie.

The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.

I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.

The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying.

I love watching a movie that is smart, that makes me think, that includes me as an audience member, and I especially love it when I know that the people that I'm working with also do that.

I'm in high heels, I'm wearing a fabulous dress, people want me to just smile and talk about my movie because I only have three minutes, and that's my job.

We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore.

I want to be the girl in Indiana Jones. I would love to do an adventure movie where I was saving the world. It might be cool if I used a lot of kitchen tools to fight off the enemy.

I want to give the audience what they want, but not at all costs. I want to leave them with something. I try to do that with every single movie I make.

[The Raindance film festival] is literally the first time we've ever screened the movie ["Selling Isobel"] to anyone, and people are a little bit traumatised by it.

You know, in the horror movie you kill the monster, and the hand re-emerges. And if you're not looking, the hand grows back and then the monster's there again. That cannot be allowed to happen.

Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie. Ive been working in commercials for ten years.

I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things graphically in a way that they haven't been seen in that world before.

Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben?

I don't want to be a part of any Bollywood movie.

I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that.

I handle my emotional pain with music and old movies, preferably Westerns.

I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.

Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.

I won't make a movie for money ever again.

People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.

I'll do whatever it takes for a movie. I don't really care what that is.

When I'm not training for a movie, it's more relaxed. I do a lot of running. Usually I'll run four to six miles about three times a week. You try to eat right, but you don't always.