Good Movie Quotations

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200 million dollars doesn't ensure that you're definitely going to make a good movie. There's so many examples that prove that.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control is the character that I'm playing. So I try to look for characters that are interesting and engaging and different than what I've done before and hopefully it becomes a good movie.

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.

You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

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.

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded.

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.

I think I made good movies.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

I never made a good movie.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about it. But I feel much more comfortable doing a comedy, but the fact that I got to try a few dramas, I feel I've tested myself a little bit.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

It's tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don't really make you think.

We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

When I got the job I thought about her a lot. Not only was I getting a great job in a really good movie, but it was with Lindsay Lohan. She's so famous and I don't have any of that, I have never experienced that kind of intense scrutiny that she's under, so of course I wondered what it would be like acting opposite her. I can tell you that it's like being with The Beatles. You cannot fathom the kind of attention she gets. It's mind boogling.

The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

Analyze This is a good movie because Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal are really good. But without the material to put on the play, of course, they couldn't be good. For me, it starts with the writing.

I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.

A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie.

When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

I remember a meeting I had at MGM. It was at the end of their reign. They say we have you under contract, and because you're under contract, we'd like to you to work. I said, well, that seems fair. But if it's a really good movie, they were going to give it to a particular actor that was not under contract.The bottom line was they were going to pay you more if it was a bad one and pay you less if it was a good one.

Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

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.

Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

Nothing that I've turned down do I feel like I should have done. Because I've generated everything I've done, I've never really considered doing something that I haven't originated myself. There are definitely things that I've been brought that someone else made good movies out of. But it's not a path I've followed, so I don't have regret.

God knows if you could start a new sex act that's more important than making a good movie.

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respect?' And that's true to what 'Chronicle' is. There's no one at the studio who wants to make a bad movie. They all want to make a good movie just as much as I do.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly...

I just wanted to make a properly good movie, and not beg for the love of the fans.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

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.

Whatever I do, I like making good movies because I like to watch good movies. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.