Movie Quotes

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

I had such a good time doing that movie [Sister Act 2]. My daughter's in that movie. It was a fun film to do. And it shocked a lot of people, because they loved it, and they take it with them.

I'm going to go talk to some people to see if you could be in the movie because you should be in the movie.

How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.

My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.

I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.

There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.

I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.

Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

If you're a movie star, the studios don't want you to act. They just want you to show up and look good and chase girls and have a lot of laughs.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.

I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.

When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!

I did a movie in Esperanto.

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie confused with my actual life.

You do a movie if it's good and if you want to do it. It doesn't matter if it's small or big or expensive or cheap. If you want to say the words, you're gonna say them. You can't strategize.

I think it's really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.

Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.

That first movie I did, Lucas [1986], was probably the closest to me. And Beetlejuice a little bit, in the sense that I did look like that. All they did was like put a little white powder here.

If some actors were more realistic and others bordering on caricature, that would have been imbalanced. It would be as if we saw an airplane in a 3 Musketeers movie.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

I don't have anything against this Jesus guy, but has he written, directed, and starred in his own movie?

Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

If nothing else, I'm making a movie that I'll enjoy.

I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

Best movie ever?! Come on, my appearance on Arrested Development had more dynamics, realism and feel to it than the whole trilogy combined.

I find my movie props in my neighbors houses.

It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].

The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.

Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.

don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.

I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.