Movie Quotes

I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.

The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

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

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

It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.

I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

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 love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

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

I'm told we movie critics praise movies that are long and boring.

It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever be able to provide one for 9/11. Such subjects overwhelm art.

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

When you are in a live-action movie, you have so many more options to express yourself. You can use your body and your gestures and facial expressions. When you are doing an animated movie, you really only have your voice.

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.

Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

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

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.

The running across the field thing, that was the first scene we shot in the movie. We asked the audience to stay for the scene, and 37,000 people stayed.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

'Movie 43' is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.

I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

There's nothing worse than the sequel that's a letdown from the first movie.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

No one can stop me from talking about my movie.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.

I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

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.

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

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

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.

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

I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.

Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the theater. I think that goes for a lot of shows today.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

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

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'