Top 1200 Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

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.

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

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.

My greatest sense comes from the experience of performing in the movie. When I have a great experience, that becomes a perfect movie. If it makes a nickel, it's still perfect. The same is true with a movie that's a bad experience. If it makes a bejillion dollars, I will hate it till the end of time.

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

Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema.

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.

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

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

I think I've been lucky enough not to have to do movie after movie after movie for financial reasons, so I've been able to live life and also make movies. I didn't have to grind them out. I could go long periods where I was living life rather than tripping over cables.

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

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.

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

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.

I would never make a movie just for the sake of making a 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.

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.

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

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

It's not uncommon to hear people say that the re-entry into their lives is very hard. A lot of actors say that the hardest thing about working is not working, because you go from one of the most structured environments in the world to a place of no structure. Maybe that's why you see someone go from movie to movie to movie.

Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly.

I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us would go see the worst movie that came out each weekend. It'd be noon in Burbank. It was just a running commentary. All executives - we would each talk through the movie and make jokes.

I'm such an action movie junkie that as an action fan, because action scenes are so heightened, we could never really picture ourselves in that scene. So when you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium: you know you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

After every movie, you get offered the role that you just did in the last movie.

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

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

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

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

The 'Beavis and Butt-head' movie was just a movie-length version of the TV show.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

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

For me, the reason to make the movie is that if people like the comic, then people would like the movie if it was well made. There are good movies for them, but very few. And I mean that in a true sense. If they love your story for freaking 30 years, then they can do a movie about it.

I loved 'Weekend,' and it meant a lot to me when I saw it in the movie theater. I think 'Looking' feels more like that movie than any of those other shows, with a little more comedy thrown in than 'Weekend.' But it's certainly got the vibe and look and feeling of that movie.

the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.

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

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

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