Top 1200 Stupid Movie Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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.

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

We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.

If you are dating someone in New York City, and they invite you over to watch a movie, they don't really want to watch a movie.

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.

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.

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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."

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.

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 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.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

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.

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

'Infernal Affairs' is really amazing and was a really popular movie. I would be fine with playing any character in the movie.

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.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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?

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

Everybody wants to be a movie star. I bet if you ask that guy would he like to be a movie star, he'd say, 'Sure.'

If I can make a dance-based movie like 'ABCD', then I was sure I could make a superhero movie, too.

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.

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

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

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.

'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 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.

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