Top 1200 Movie Critic Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

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.

I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.

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?

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

I was going to direct the movie 'Training Day', and I got fired. Denzel Washington didn't want me to direct the 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?

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

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.

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!

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

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.

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.

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.'

There's some kind of actors that can radically change who they are from movie to movie. I've never really been that kind of actor. I enjoy changing the worlds that I'm in.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

WWE prepares you for everything in entertainment. It's the truth. You need a host? Get a WWE Superstar. You need someone for an action movie, a comedy movie, a drama movie, you get a WWE Superstar. Because these guys are the most well-versed, well-trained, and hardest working guys out there.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

If my life is a movie - in the movie, there's always the bad part. There's also the parts where you're down and out, and there are parts where everything's amazing.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.