Movie Quotes · Page 193

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

— Roland Joffe

Movies don't necessarily change culture. I don't know if we know for sure if movies change culture but we know for sure…

— Ellen Page

When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.

— Eckhart Tolle

I would've given my right arm to do something on the 'Ray' film, the movie about Ray Charles.

— Ne-Yo

When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch…

— J. Michael Straczynski

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the…

— Kevin Smith

Depending on how 'Doctor Sleep' does, we'll see what movie opportunities there will be.

— Mike Flanagan

“Are there girls in this movie?' 'Sure. There are always girls in movies. There aren't any movies without girls.”

— Ron Franscell

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the…

— Michael Haneke

My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small…

— Harvey Keitel

I'd never done nudity in a movie; I've never sort of condoned it for myself, but David Lynch wanted it, and I…

— Laura Dern

In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and…

— Curtis Hanson

It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm…

— John Hawkes

I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you…

— Molly Shannon

Films are born from screenplays and they are guided by words. They are born very limited and there is no space for…

— Alex Abreu

Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself…

— James Wolcott

If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed.…

— Bret Easton Ellis

There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

— Christopher Hampton

Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level…

— Robbie Coltraine

The No. 1 place I've visited so far was Antwerp, Belgium. That was one of the coolest cities I've ever seen. Every…

— Sam Mikulak

The movie 'Kallukkul Eeram' ensured that people noticed me; there was no looking back.

— Vijayashanti

I just wanted to make a properly good movie, and not beg for the love of the fans.

— Louis Leterrier

When you watch the first 'American Pie' movie, you're like... 'I know that jock who's kind of sweet and has a girlfriend,…

— Hayden Schlossberg

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range…

— Wes Anderson

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

— Harold Ramis

I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.

— Colin Trevorrow

Every day is a new day to find out you're an idiot for not having seen, like, the coolest movie ever.

— Sarah Sherman

This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the…

— M. Night Shyamalan

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me…

— Antonio Banderas

Its not the breath that takes our moments away, its the moments that take our breath away.

— The Forgotten

That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get…

— Harold Ramis

We've shown the entertainment industry what social media is capable of doing for a movie. 'Sharknado' is now a noun.

— Ian Ziering

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

— Michel Hazanavicius

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

— Jimmy Cannon

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to…

— Alejandro Amenabar

I do a lot of cleaning and organizing of the house, and I'm also a big TV and movie buff.

— Danny Green

I eat, sleep, and breathe movies. Though I didn't understand the seriousness of films when I made my debut, I felt on…

— Sridevi

If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well.

— Andrew Bryniarski

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to…

— Nora Ephron

All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to…

— Samuel L. Jackson