Movie Quotations | Page 2

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

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.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.