Top 1200 Movie Business Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I took it really seriously... as serious as any actor could take a movie . I had so much fun doing movie Dragonball . But I take any part I do seriously because I feel a sense of responsibility to the young kids who have saved their money to go and see a movie. I feel it's my responsibility to make it the best I can, because I don't want to let anyone down.

I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from the corn.

We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out.

I haven't done a movie without a member of the original cast of 'Zombieland' - they've all been in every movie I've done.

My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it. I felt a calling.

I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing it. It's entertainment. You know that you're in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house.

It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.

I really like my first movie a lot, 'Kicking and Screaming.' I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't 'Citizen Kane' right out of the box, you know? It wasn't 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.'

If your business is the right business, then money will never be an issue.

There's often a big difference between business considerations as opposed to the business of the heart.

Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

I was raised by my aunt and we bonded over the eight-o-clock movie on TV. We'd watch everything from James Cagney in 'White Heat' to Lon Chaney in 'The Wolf Man' and every Bogart movie.

We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.

The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business.

I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity

When I watch the movie, which is I don't know how many times I've done now with editing and everything, I walk out giddy just because I feel like that's the movie that I want to see.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

If anybody in my business knew as much about their business as the public did, they'd be all right!

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

I've made some stupid decisions, so I have to be careful. I once said 'no' to a film that was a number-one hit. And 'Date Movie' had the smallest budget of any movie I'd been in, and it went to the top of the box office.

How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that the scary elements of it are more scary and it functions as a genre movie - as the way it's supposed to, you want to hear a ghost story at midnight, that's a good one - but how do you fill it up with humanity inside, in staying true to the genre? You know? Does that make sense?

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

'Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

I thought I'd have time to become a movie star. And it didn't happen, did it? We're still waiting. And they're saying, 'Don't hold your breath, kid.' Even movie stars can't get movies, you know what I mean?

I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.

When it comes to the ratings, I don't know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I've learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I've felt like a movie wasn't working, it didn't work.

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same.

It's harder to maintain that internet kind of fame. It requires daily work, as opposed to a movie star who can make a movie once every two years and stay in the public eye. I respect it.

If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West.

I believe that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business... my business!

I remember seeing Richard Pryor's first movie; it was a midnight movie when I was in high school. I must have been about fifteen. It was one of the most cathartic experiences of my life. I'd never laughed that much.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.

I go where I think I can enjoy myself. Sometimes it's on a big movie, and sometimes it's even on a silly movie.

When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.

If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go under.

For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.

I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't.

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.

If you’re a responsible business, you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.

I really like my first movie a lot, "Kicking and Screaming." I think it's a - I'm very pleased and proud of that movie, but it wasn't the - it wasn't "Citizen Kane" right out of the box, you know? It wasn't "Sex, Lies and Videotape."

I think as an author you have to allow a movie to be separate from the book. It's an entirely different animal. I almost never mind when a movie changes or cuts something - as long as it helps the film work better.

After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I was in the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business.

I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business.

I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.

You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

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

I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

The government shouldn't be in the business of subsidizing a business by allowing people to be paid starvation wages.

Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.

Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie.

It's hard to make a clear line between what is political business and what is state business.