Movie Quotations

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the 'Hannah Montana' movie that will be out in the spring.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

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.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.