Top 1200 Silent Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.

The look of the movie and the music, which was by Jack Nitzsche, is what really stands out to me. I don't know if the movie succeeds as a political, cultural comment on the times and the war in Vietnam, and the capitalists versus the everyday guy that gets sent off to fight corporate wars. I don't know if the movie ever succeeded in that range. But it was a wonderful part in the Cutter's Way.

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

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

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

It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars].

The movie that really 'did it for me' was 'All About Eve.' The backstage feeling, the authenticity, the passion those people had for their lives in the theater. I must say, the movie 'All About Eve,' what a great movie! 'All About Eve' had a profound effect on my life.

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

I did the movie [Valley of Violence] from two perspectives. You're with Ethan [Hawke] the whole movie, but for the first half, you're really with Ethan. For the second half, you're with him, but also you're with the bad guys because he kind of becomes the bad guy. No one's really good in the movie.

It doesn't seem weird to me, at all. I'm in Baton Rouge getting ready to direct a movie for Sony, and I'm in the movie and I'm directing it. I know it's kind of this thing where some people find it difficult. I just finished a movie with Mario Van Peebles and he acted and directed as well too. I think we all feel similar that it just kind of seems natural.

I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

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

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

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

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

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

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

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

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

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'm going to go talk to some people to see if you could be in the movie because you should be in the movie.

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

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

I really want to make something that makes people think. I love that movie 'Tiny Furniture' that Lena Dunham made. I just love that movie, and I laugh at that movie a lot, but I also felt a lot too. I'm just inspired by people like that.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

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

See I think we are nervous about every movie before it's release, irrespective of who has directed the movie.

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

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

Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me.

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

I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.

It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.

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

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

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

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

I've always spent a lot of time in movie theaters, kind of absorbing anything I can. I just love sitting in the dark, and watching the flickering image up there. Just sitting in a movie theater alone is inspiring to me. It takes a pretty bad movie to drain the magic out of that - but Lord knows, those movies exist.

I think, for me, I'm always more interested in the process of making the movie than the movie itself

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

Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.

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

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

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.

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

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

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

Being a little bit of a movie buff, the fact that I'm working in the middle of movie history is incredible.

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

I love Child's Play 2! That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That's why I wanted to do it. I was scared to do a horror movie - a blatant, studio horror movie - but I liked the script, and I thought that was such an important theme, because I don't think adults listen to children enough.