Movie Quotes

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

I'm one of those people who can watch a stupid movie and end up crying.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

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

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

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.

The Village did a lot for me, of course, because it was my first movie.

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie.

There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.

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

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.

Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

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.

Live your life like you're the hero in your movie and right now.

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

Into the sky to win or die.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

The wand chooses the wizard.

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

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.

I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot

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

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

I think its a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don’t feel that. You are all my guests, it’s not the other way around, that’s how I feel.

My life is like a movie and I do my own stunts

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

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