Movie Quotes
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
A lot of people have said it to me 'You made me cry.' And it was only because I cried myself when I watched the movie.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.
I've been around the movie business, so I can play it cool and all that, but when people are different they have that off thing about them. Their whole presence is just a little innocent, I think.
It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.
I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.
I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long. So it's actually kind of nice to go home to a hotel and be alone and unwind.
No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.
My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.
I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.
The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.
My dream is to make the world's scariest PG movie. Because I feel that if you can do that, then you've done something special.
In order to make a great, epic movie, you have to have the four Bs - babes, bullets, blood and blades.
When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.
When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.
I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.
It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!
If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.
If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.
At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.
For my Perfect Chemistry series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.
Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.
I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.
Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.
I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
