Top 1200 Movie Making Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

You know, making an animated movie is such a lonesome thing. You mostly don't see your fellow actors or anything. You go into your booth, you record all your dialogue. It's very much an issue of trust. You leave it all up to the director.

Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

Excalibur' was a quest for my father. I remember it was manic on the film set. And we had these massive castle sets. I think my dad was under tremendous pressure making the movie because there was so much going on. I remember it was a hard one to make - a lot of stress and strain.

Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).

My favorite movie is 'Die Hard.' It doesn't have pinatas and mariachis. It's just a good movie.

Because movies have gotten so expensive, and they're so expensive to market, that means that for a movie to break even or to make its money back, everybody has to go see the movie, and if everybody has to go see the movie, then it can't be about anything.

I would agree Paul is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.

You think it's so cool to have movie stars in your movie, but they become people.

The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.

I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with the bad guys. I didn't want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower base of movies that I just didn't think were helping people, really.

I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

I felt that I shouldn't be an actor who just makes movie after movie in a quest for prestige and money.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.

For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

I think everybody does go in expecting they're making 'Gone With The Wind' on their first movie. But you know, that's just not going to be the case, everybody. Hold onto your hat. Buckle in. It's probably going to take a few.

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

Actors are real egomaniacs. They get into a movie, they think the whole movie's about them.

I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I'm making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so...

When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would be, like, in Photoplay or something. We didn't hear "The Making of..." every single movie, and actors didn't have to put this tremendous piece of work that they'd done into a sound bite.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

I actually heard hip-hop before I saw a movie in a movie theater. I heard hip-hop first, at the tender age of seven, so that came first. I didn't see a movie until I was eight.

I don't like, speaking about the movie, if I may say couple more words, I like a movie that doesn't drag too much, unless it's purpose. I like a movie with an action with a certain pace. If it's too monotone, I hate it. No, I don't hate it, I just don't like it, period.

Movie-wise, there is nothing I wouldn't do again. It's not possible to make one perfect movie every time.

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

'The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

And I like the passion that people have when they're trying to prove they can make a movie or be a movie star.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.

When I go to the movie theater, I want to get emotion from the actors in the movie.

Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day.

In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no audience for that.

My favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. It's a classic and I can pretty much recite the entire movie.

If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.

They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

The summer before I went to culinary school, my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we were just like, "Yeah, that makes the movie sound really smart!" It's so much better then my original title, Explosion. Well, there might be an explosion in the movie.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.

Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one's a movie. Oftentimes, it's based on a video game.

My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.

In '39, they had no problem with it. But today, there's a huge issue with a movie that has no male movie stars.

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

If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.