Movie Quotes

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

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

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Most rappers these days is actors, And I can't keep watching the same movie.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

After we put my son to bed, my husband and I curl up and watch a movie or TV. That's when I finally put up my feet and have my glass of wine and a brownie.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.

I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

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 love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

Always stay in your own movie.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

I steal from every movie ever made.

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

Making a movie is casting a spell.

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

Switchin' speeds like Bruce Lee ridin' up Fuji in a movie.

I'm gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I'm on my way.