Movie Quotes

I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.

I think when the movie 'Roxanne' came out, which I also had written, I felt something new that I never felt, which was respect.

What's hard in movies is to have a consistent tone throughout a movie. Whatever that is.

Ill be playing a priest in Chavez Cage Of Glory, which is a fight movie.

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie.

At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.

We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

There's a big difference between a movie about relationships and a movie in which people talk about relationships. It seems like a lot of people have confused the two.

Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

My dad took me to my first movie.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met.

I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.

Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

That's not going to happen, because I don't want it to happen. I don't want a movie about me until I'm very, very old - when I'm very, very old, everybody that wants to play me will be middle-aged.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

Just write what you love and what a movie you'd like to see.

I probably watch movies more than I actually listen to music, I think.

Cinema is like dream.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.

And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.

If you're trying to be realistic and bring real life to the screen, you are going to have different elements. That's what I'm trying to do. As I make the movie, different elements come in naturally.

I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.

I figure if kids see a movie about 12-year-olds chopping each other up, they can probably see a movie where everyone keeps their clothes on and doesn't use foul language.

If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to.

I love horror movies. A good horror movie is always great.

At the end of a movie, all my outfits are missing. They even call: 'Tara, those were $700 shoes.' What are they going to do, search my house?

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.

I was thrown in the deep end at 18 when I got cast in a movie that I didn't audition for. The director just sort of found me and put me in a film, so the decision was really made for me.

My parents don't really watch movies at all.