Movie Quotes · Page 256

You're never going to truly wrap your head around things that take a lifetime to study while making a movie.

— Dev Patel

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

— Oliver Stone

I only produce movies that have something stylistically different, so that I can learn from the experience of producing.

— Guillermo del Toro

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are…

— Ricky Schroder

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

— Zach Braff

The first HIV movie in India, 'Nidaan,' was done by me which at that time nobody dared to even try.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

I learned a lot, in terms of inspiring people. It became very clear to me, very early on, that directing a movie…

— Matthew Lillard

I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in…

— Brian Selznick

Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you…

— Matthew Quick

“Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good book,…

— Belle Aurora

I kept interrupting the movie by asking a lot of questions that Xavier managed to answer with endless patience. "How old do…

— Alexandra Adornetto

We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it…

— Matt Groening

When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become…

— Louis Leterrier

This new crop of actors, they're larger than life people. I don't think that this generation has the same following that the…

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart

Time moves on but Barbara Hershey's doing good and John Heard, they're all people working. I know there were a couple of…

— Garry Marshall

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and…

— Rachel True

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

— Nicolas Cage

“Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I try to look in the future and think backwards. That is when I am at my most comfortable. Because then I…

— Masayoshi Son

I've always had the same principle for choosing roles, which is to try and make movies that I would pay to see.…

— Scarlett Johansson

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big…

— Charles Stross

I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.

— Patrick Lussier

On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.

— Ann-Margret

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.

— Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

— Adam Sandler

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative…

— David Bailey

'Deadpool' feels like it exploded out of nowhere, but it was a ten-year development process on that movie. I think it was…

— Simon Kinberg

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

— Zedd

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

— Pauline Kael

If you don't see me act, my work is done. The actor must never take the character beyond the scope of the…

— Vijay Sethupathi

I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

— Jan de Bont

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

— Zooey Deschanel

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally…

— Tommy Wiseau

I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies…

— Gavin Creel

I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.

— Paul Schneider

“If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these faces gently melt into my own, while…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

— Beth Grant

In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces…

— Hong Chau

I yearn to make a really good, intelligent movie before I die: I don't completely rule out the possibility, but in Hollywood,…

— Harriet Walter

I've got a huge family back in Ireland, and I've made loads of movies in Ireland.

— Tom Holland