Top 1200 Indie Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I think that making a movie is not just making the movie - it is also about having thoughtful ideas and embracing all the aspects of its launch.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

If you are dating someone in New York City, and they invite you over to watch a movie, they don't really want to watch a movie.

I was fired from a movie because I did 'Heathers!' I was cast in a movie, and the director saw an advance screening and was offended by it and fired me.

Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.

If Irrfan plans to make a movie on me, I will be the hero of the movie, as I feel that no one better than me.

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

I think it is so much more fun to discover film in the movie theatre when there is so much anticipation about the movie.

Alec Guinness classed up that movie [Star Wars]. Nobody else in that movie knew how to act. Nobody else had a clue of what they were doing. The young guy was a complete loss, absolutely couldn't act his way out of a bag, but Alec Guinness carried that movie. He was such a class act that it elevated the film to be a joy to watch.

When you're in Los Angeles, everybody you meet is writing a movie, and they want you to be in it. Every cab driver is writing a movie!

The downside of doing a multi-protagonist movie is that you don't get to service each character as you would if they were the central protagonist of the movie.

'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

There are many, many different kinds of movies and directors and styles. I don't mind that a movie looks like a movie.

I had received some minor indie label interest when I was 14 after I was in a schools music competition thing in NZ called 'Rockquest', but I knew it wasn't the right time and that I wasn't good enough and needed to concentrate on school.

I like to try to do anything active when I'm not on a movie. When I'm shooting a movie, it's really hard for me to do anything besides work.

I start with the music before I start writing the movie. It's such an important part for me, emotionally, to set up the tone for the movie.

I had read the scripts that Nora Ephron had written as a movie about Mike McAlary. We were never able to make it at HBO because we couldn't cast it properly and when I left I called Nora and said, "Look, I actually think that the movie luckyguyindustry has changed. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to make this as a movie. I actually think it's a play."

Every movie, I find myself adrift at the beginning of the movie, and then I find my way through the dark forest.

We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could get, performance-wise.

A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

When we wrapped Resident Evil, we were a 3D movie, but it was no big deal. And then, Avatar came out and the whole of Hollywood was like, "Look at these grosses! 3D is huge. Let's all be 3D!" We just got on with doing what we were doing, which was making what we think is a really quality, kick-ass 3D movie, and we'll really be the first live-action 3D movie of the year.

Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he'd say, 'Sure.'

He very nearly stole a scene in my movie, and I didn't call him on it because I was just like, Hey, I saw some stuff on SuperDeluxe and how many different films do you have on there? And he goes, This one, this one, Comedy by Numbers and this one and one called 'Bob Pitches a Movie.' And I'm like, Oh! And then I was thinking he would say, which is very similar to the one to the one I did in your movie, but he never did. I just let it go. I don't care.

I think having simplicity doesn't always mean that you make a good movie. I have a theory that a movie that's easy to make is hard to watch.

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal.

When I came to America I thought, 'Wouldn't it be awesome to get into one movie?' And then I get cast in 'Bridesmaids' as my first job here and it's such a huge movie.

Sometimes it's funny for me to just pretend I'm a movie character, and think what would you do if this was a movie? Or, what would you do if you were one of your icons?

From dancing around to Michael Jackson and Madonna as a kid to having my mind blown by the first sounds of punk and indie rock, to getting to play my own songs and have people listen, music is what got me through.

Working on television is much more stressful than working for a movie. The pace of work is relaxed while shooting a movie.

It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.

The Road was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.

I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.

I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.

My interest in music tends toward being orchestral music. And the repertoire of music that exists is, to me, far more emotive than what is standardly used in movie scores. That isn't always. I think there've been some excellent movie scores by excellent directors. But for the most part, watching a film, one of today's movies, I think that the emotional undertone of movie scores is pretty poor.

With Jubilee I had a natural interest to write about something on the opposite end of human experience - a real celebration of release and joy, which is in some ways an unexpected theme for the indie rock genre in general.

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.

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'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.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.

Our kids seldom even get to see a movie. When we go to a movie, it's an event - and we make it an event.

My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.

'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.

A movie is the product of the chemistry of the people that make it. Whatever that core group of people is, that becomes the DNA of the movie.

You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script by another scary movie writer.'

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

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

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.

When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on The Purge was crucial to that movie working.

I never knew how much you had to do to promote a movie, and I can't imagine what it would be like if you didn't like the movie you were promoting.

The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great.