Movie Quotes · Page 196

Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.

— Katherine Dunn

I'm doing a much smaller movie. It's set in Germany and it's a totally different subject matter. I'm trying to break it…

— Roland Emmerich

That character called 'Robin Wright' in the movie called 'The Congress' has nothing to do with me... I've never felt that way…

— Robin Wright

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

— John Lasseter

It's cool if people want to make movies of stuff, but I'm really interested in the comics.

— Gerard Way

In kindergarten, we'd tell stories with our toys. We'd set a timer for two hours because we knew that was how long…

— Matt Duffer

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're…

— Nora Ephron

I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie.

— Tommy Wiseau

I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box.…

— Shane Black

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor. It trumps movies and all that other stuff. People…

— Paul Rudd

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were…

— Manuel Puig

At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we…

— Renny Harlin

We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety…

— Peter Coyote

'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He…

— Olivia Thirlby

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can…

— Phillip Noyce

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite…

— Brian K. Vaughan

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

— Curtis Hanson

It was a very good experience. It wasn't just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The…

— Liv Tyler

The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for…

— Steven Spielberg

If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'

— Robert Ben Garant

When I am offered a film, I don't ask whether I will be singing any of the movie's tracks.

— Diljit Dosanjh

When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.

— Michelle Williams

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

— Natalie Wood

'Star Wars' is my favorite movie series ever. I like the old ones better than the new ones, but I like all…

— Marley Dias

“I'd been forced into a movie, and there was nothing to do but follow the script.”

— Jonathan Tropper

I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will,…

— Nia Long

When I'm done with my last album, I want to make a movie with Tim Burton telling the story of all of…

— Melanie Martinez

I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is…

— Steven Spielberg

Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other…

— Penelope Cruz

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not…

— Tony Jaa

Many filmmakers have had that experience. They make a movie, then out of nowhere, they either pass censorship or fail.

— Jiang Wen

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it…

— Meg Ryan

Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of…

— Sebastian Lelio

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

— Bernie Mac

My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that…

— Billy Eichner

I'm so freaking happy when I talk to people who saw 'The Greatest.' I love that movie. It was the most intense…

— Johnny Simmons

I think it's just important to be always bouncing between TV and theater, and hopefully I'll get to do movies at some…

— Katie Lowes

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

— Sam Mendes

It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

— Boris Karloff

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

— Adam Brody