Movie Quotes

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.

We really wanted it to be an action movie. Those are the movies that we love. We're big fans of like Shane Black movies, when we were younger - me and Evan [Goldberg].

We kind of have some ideas for sequels. The movie [Sausage Party] ends in a way that implies a next chapter.

[ I watched ] Spicoli in Fast Times, which isn't exactly a stoner movie, or The Big Lebowski, which I think is more than a stoner movie or Brad Pitt in True Romance.

Steve Wozniak admittedly would never like say the things he said to Steve Jobs [in the movie] in the context that he said them.

If I were directing a movie, it would scare me.

Japanese movie "Be With You" served as inspiration for "Love Box." I couldn't fill up the album with just my experiences.

People always ask about the transition from TV show to a movie, but it felt like just going to a different school. You don't really notice the transition, when you're in the moment.

I haven't had time to think about a relationship! I literally have not had a boyfriend in almost five years. I've never even hooked up with anybody I've worked on a movie with.

I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.

I think it's an obligation to make a movie full, so you have to see it twice to get all the moments.

I wouldn't exactly describe 'Detention' as a horror movie. I mean, it does have horror elements in it, but it's got a lot more to it, and it's not a typical horror movie.

Oh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me

My first movie. I think I won an Oscar for this.

The first movie [Grown Ups], people loved it and we felt that there were so many characters and so many good comic situations that there was enough material leftover for us to do a sequel.

With each movie I get better and I'm able to tell incredible stories that move people into motion.

I'm quite a romantic person - everyone loves being treated a little bit special, no matter how hard you are on the surface. I live in movie land; my head is full of nonsense.

Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie

Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.

The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.

We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.

I did shoot a movie called 'Mother's Day', and I really can't wait for everybody to see that. I had so much fun shooting that with Jennifer Aniston, which was kind of surreal in itself.

Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie Black Swan.

The best movies are simple.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

Nobody makes movies like Oliver Stone.

We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because Oscar voters loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.

Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.

Last thing you want to do with a good movie is hold the audience hostage. As an entertainer myself, I just know it's better when you leave 'em wanting more than to stick around too long.

The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.

I think of a movie as a human body. You can feel the pump of the heart and the blood going through the veins when you watch that scene.

The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it.

I think anybody who was ever saddened by a movie theater closing would be able to understand this film [Aquarius].

You never know what a movie is going to look like when you're shooting it and you just hope it's going to look like it's supposed to be.