Movie Quotations | Page 3

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.

When they watch a movie and they know that you're in a relationship, you just kind of watch that constantly.

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

All I do is go to the movies.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.