Movie Quotes · Page 203

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

— Louis Leterrier

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

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

— Eckhart Tolle

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

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

— Ne-Yo

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

— Ron Franscell

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

— Mike Flanagan

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An…

— John Waters

The whole idea with acting is that you take some risks. And if you take some risks, you're really going to mess…

— Domhnall Gleeson

I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be…

— Colin Firth

I know it wasn't like a meteoric rise, it was not overnight success. Nobody watched my movie, fell in love and said…

— Shraddha Srinath

I loved working in stand-up, and I always dreamed that I could make a movie about it. I didn't know if I…

— Judd Apatow

'The Road to Wellville'... it had Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, directed by Alan Parker. I hadn't been doing all that well, and…

— Matthew Broderick

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of…

— Charlie Kaufman

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

Yes, I want to do good work. But just because a movie is small, it doesn't make it better. In fact, there…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

— Peter Jackson

Generally, I don't like to walk out of a movie. It's like a relationship - you want to see it to the…

— David Duchovny

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you…

— Gary Johnson

Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.

— Seth Rogen

Directors are the fulcrum of the movie. They guide us well, not merely rein actors in. Whenever we stray, they bring us…

— Vijay Sethupathi

I want Tom Cruise to play his character from Magnolia in every movie he does from now on.

— Christopher Mintz Plasse

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

I grew up on Spielberg and Lucas. That was sort of what inspired me to make movies.

— Rick Famuyiwa

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I…

— Blake Jenner

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do…

— Michael Lewis

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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 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

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

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

I take my 'Star Wars' quite seriously. There's humor in the movie, but as a fan I just wanted it to feel…

— Gareth Edwards