Movie Quotes

Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: "No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat."

...the music seems creepy, like when children sing in a horror movie

Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?" And all those checkmarks.

"Admission" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such a beautifully written script offered to me, it's like elves made the shoes.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.

I love making movies, I love trying to make them as good as I can, but I feel like sometimes the marketing and publicity around the movie, becomes the most important part of it.

It's always hard for the first movie because you have to spend so much time introducing the characters.

It's great to see a relatable, accessible young woman out there, doing things and breaking the barriers for what would be considered an action movie.

Of course, marketing and publicity does an amazing job of prepping everybody for that, but there's nothing like sitting there and experiencing the movie.

People grew up on the animated movie. Bill Condon is Bill Condon. And nobody does those movies better than Disney does.

To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.

To me, the script is a living, breathing organism. Comedy is something that is ever-changing and ever-flowing with the vibe and the mood of the movie.

It becomes pretty crystal clear once you watch that first assembly [movie cut] the things that are just grinding it to a halt, so to speak, or slowing it down, or getting in the way, yeah.

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.

Every weekend in history has worked for movies if the movie connects.

A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.

You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going exactly where you think it's going, or expecting it to be going.

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

I have literally no idea what it's like to shoot a 2D movie. I'd only shot things that were 7 minutes long with a video camera in my apartment with friends.

Having to act like an adult because I was directing a big movie but also feeling like a child because we had reindeer and big cameras and they had fake snow. I just wanted to go play in the snow.

It's such a huge endeavor putting a full movie together, especially an independent movie. I tend to kind of do them when they come my way more than something than I go out and actively pursue.

Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that.

I'm not saying I'm not bummed if a movie doesn't do well, but that isn't the final analysis of whether it's any good.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

I dont think I could do a superhero movie. Im just not really that type of guy.

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.

I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

I'm a huge fan of process. Even if it's a movie that I don't think is quite as successful, I'm really intrigued by the process of it.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

When you're making a movie in 18 days you have to be able to make decisions and have a streamlined reporting structure.

I think movie makers in every country are looking for ideas. It's interactive. And sometimes we remake a lot of Hollywood films but we don't buy the rights, we just try to imitate those films.

What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.

Well, unbeknownst to everybody, I did a movie when I was 19.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

My favorite movie villain? Oh, that's easy. Hannibal Lecter.

You can't do anything yourself on TV... unless you have a LOT of money, but you can do an independent movie.

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.

Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know where to find a date.

I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects!

Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the dialogue of a movie.