Movie Quotes

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

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.

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good but don't bet on it. It's one of the best films of the year.

People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie--or even what you say, right? They care about what you build.

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.

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.

I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

Nowadays, everything's evolved into superheroes and it's boring. If I see one more superhero movie I'm going to shoot myself.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

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

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

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

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

I’m prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.

Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.

For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood.

The movie of my life must be really low budget.

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

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

There's an old saying that you don't ever finish a movie, you abandon it, and I really believe that. I never walk away from a take and pat myself on the back.

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

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.

Every one of us has learned how to send emails on Sunday night. But how many of us know how to go a movie on Monday afternoon. You've unbalanced your life without balancing it with someone else.

There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

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

I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not. But like when I see a movie, for example, that I really like, that moves me or whatever, it's usually happy and sad at the same time.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart.

It's hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

You're gonna need a bigger boat.