Top 1200 Movie Making Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

These days music composers are singing themselves or making other male artistes sing. It is very tough to find a female single in a movie album and even if it is, it is just a female version of a song sung by a male artiste.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

I've always had the luck or blessing that someone would say, 'I liked what you did in that movie. I'd like you to be in my movie.'

I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.

Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.

I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.

When I am sitting in a movie theater with my girlfriends or boyfriend, I think how cool would it be to watch a movie with me in it.

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

There's something very surreal about driving a truck, looking in the rearview mirror, and seeing 20 cop cars behind you. Even though you know, 'We're just shooting. This is just a scene; we're making a movie here,' it's very unsettling.

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

Then you have these people in the movie theaters that talk the whole time during the movie. You ever go with somebody like that to a movie but you don't realize until you get there that you're with somebody like that? Brand new movie. First day it's open. You're there together and the entire time they're sitting there: Where's she going? Why'd he do that? Is he mad at her? I don't know, let's watch and find out together shall we? You know who you are. You're denying it right now: I do not do that. Why is she saying that?. What's she gonna say next?

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

When I signed my movie contract, I thought I could never even have an opinion on a movie. But now, I've realized I have a lot of opinions.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.

As a reader and as a viewer, usually when I watch a movie, I'm caught up enough in the movie that I'm not breaking it down to the details anyway.

I had no confusion about making a superhero film. From the very day one, I knew I will make a movie of this genre which will have an Indian superhero. I never wanted to copy my superhero from any of the Hollywood ones.

Well, 'Terminator', it's just such an iconic movie in movie history. It's universal. I think it's part of the pop culture of the world.

Life is like a movie to me. Everybody has their own movie that's playing out every day, and you're writing it.

There are rules in movies. I did a movie playing a bad cop who was a heroin addict but they wouldn't let me smoke in a movie.

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

It's all about his determination. You never, ever, give up once you start something, once you're on the trail of something you don't stop and that's what you have to go through when you're making a movie too. Once the train's rolling, you have to stick with it.

When I read the first 'Sharknado' movie, I thought it was terrible. I told my wife that I couldn't do this movie, that it would be the end of my career.

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

My favorite older movie of all-time is "Scarface." Al Pacino played that role so well. It's a longer movie, but I like it.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

People call me a movie star. If you're in the business, a movie star is someone who can make a film bankable. My name and $6 million will make a $6 million movie. I'm a working actor. Because I started late, I had a very short run as a leading man, and my films didn't make money in America.

If you have a smartphone, you can give content to the world. The days of putting a movie in movie theaters because people don't have a choice is over.

The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.

The problem is I want to do everything. I really love all of it, and I love every aspect of movie-making and storytelling, and I love television, I love the Internet. I wish I had time to do absolutely everything.

I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.

I work extremely hard, but I love every minute of it. Although I couldn't work as hard if I felt there was a ceiling on anything. I spent £125,000 on four pictures for the sleeves for 'Overpowered,' and I loved spending it! It was like making a little movie.

There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie; it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

Making a movie is like chipping away at a stone. You take a piece off here, you take a piece off there and when you're finished, you have a sculpture. You know that there's something in there, but you're not sure exactly what it is until you find it.

It's rare that a movie generally considered a popcorn type movie, gets recognized among such serious, great fare.

There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.

I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

I did my first movie,a movie called Whiffs, which very few people ever saw.

The 'Star Wars' movie is coming out. Disney has kept the details of the movie under wraps because they're not Sony.

'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

In this movie, 'Jigarthanda,' audience can feel it as English movie because this BGM is totally different from Indian background score.

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

In a zombie apocalypse movie, nobody's ever seen a zombie movie. Or in an alien invasion movie, nobody has ever seen an alien invasion movie, like 'Independence Day.'

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

Some people think of me as an actor and some as a movie star, so I sort of guess that makes me both. I love making movies, and I love playing on the stage.

If I could spend the rest of my life inside one movie it would be The Godfather, because it's the greatest movie ever made.

In our age of Twitter and smartphones, there is no controlled release of a movie preview. The enigma of movie stars is lost.

One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

Any movie I've done, my character has had a secret. Whether it's in the movie or not, it is usually never and it's usually not something I tell anybody. It is for me.