Movie Quotes · Page 149

You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.

— Orson Welles

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their…

— Jeremy Thomas

I can do anything - but that doesn't mean I should do that. I need to enjoy what I do. I enjoy…

— Jerry Weintraub

I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.

— Adriana Trigiani

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

— Jessica Pare

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are…

— Edward Zwick

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie,…

— Joel Silver

I'm sure everyone that has ever done an action movie has just drooled over how full of talent Bruce Lee was and…

— Jason Statham

3D, the ever-changing 3D. It's great. It's been really interesting. My family came to the set a few times, and I see…

— Eleanor Tomlinson

You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five…

— Saul Zaentz

I don't think the film is going to work for everybody, period. It wasn't meant to be done for everybody. I didn't…

— Joseph M. Kahn

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that…

— David Fincher

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show…

— Trey Parker

The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like 'Close Encounters,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' That was…

— Marti Noxon

I feel like movies should stick to a genre and give the audience what they want, and then surprise them with the…

— Paula Patton

[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John…

— Costa-Gavras

If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the…

— John C. McGinley

I'm a huge 'Dragon Ball Z' fan, so when they were trying to make a live-action movie, I was, like, 'No!'

— Ashleigh Murray

I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the…

— Tom Holland

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

— Justin Timberlake

When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes…

— Ice Cube

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

— Antonio Banderas

The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'

— Norman Lear

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens…

— Ennio Morricone

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

— Ben Platt

I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes…

— Robin Williams

Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all…

— Stephen Chbosky

I actually didn't believe the producers when they said, 'Joy, we're writing a movie about your life'. I was like, 'Oh, OK,…

— Joy Mangano

When I work onstage, I want to play roles that have real, deep theatricality, that aren't the sort you would easily see…

— Elizabeth Marvel

I like being alone. I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're…

— Rooney Mara

“The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair. (ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)”

— Oliver Stone

I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer,…

— Reese Witherspoon

For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

— Maiwenn

I've always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as…

— Howard Stern

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over;…

— Dennis Farina

I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele…

— Rebel Wilson

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in…

— Vanessa Paradis

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

— James Spader

“From that moment on, Batman Returns was destined to become what it ultimately turned out to be: un film de Tim Burton...with…

— Glen Weldon

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

— Billy Bob Thornton