Brian Cox Movie Quotes

#1. I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

Brian De Palma

#2. We just decided to pick the date 'The Matrix' opened in most of the world. At the end of the day, it worked out really great because the world seems to have got to a place where I think the movie is even more relevant now than it was several months ago.

Joel Silver

#3. Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

Brian Lamb

#4. When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

Brian De Palma

#5. Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse 'Tootsie' story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie.

Robin Leach

#6. Anyone worth doing, is worth doing well.

Emma Chase

#7. If a movie makes it really big, they do the obvious thing, right? They make an amusement park ride out of it ... The connection is obvious. You get off, "Man, that was just like the movie! Only the movie had a storyline and characters, and that was a little more like a roller coaster."

Brian Regan

#8. The '80s were a much simpler time, mainly because the only superhero movie franchise anyone could complain about was Superman, and the Internet didn't exist so you couldn't even complain about it to too many people - just, like, your mom and maybe your imaginary friend or whatever

Brian Alan Ellis

#9. Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#10. 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 my head.

Brian Selznick

#11. Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.

Quentin Tarantino

#12. Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

Brian De Palma

#13. I love other movies that have been made since, but I think more than any comic book movie, 'Superman' just totally seemed to capture superheroes in ways that others have not.

Brian K. Vaughan

#14. I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

Brian De Palma

#15. In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

Guy Finley

#16. I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.

Nia Long

#17. I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no 70-year old vampires?' Apparently there are not - or even zombies for that matter. I guess they all get eaten.

Brian Dennehy

#18. And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

Brian De Palma

#19. A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.

Brian Selznick

#20. When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

Jerome Lawrence

#21. We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#22. I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

Brian Selznick

#23. I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.

Brian De Palma

#24. Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.

Brian Helgeland

#25. Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

Sarah Jessica Parker

#26. Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. If ... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

Idries Shah

#28. Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

Robert A. Heinlein

#29. I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The comic is still the comic.

Brian Michael Bendis

#30. People would say to him, "When you finish a movie, did it come out as good as you thought it was going to?" Or, "Did it come out the way you intended it to come out?"

Brian Henson

#31. Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Taylor Swift

#32. I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.

Brian Helgeland

#33. The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.

Brian Dennehy

#34. I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

Brian K. Vaughan

#35. A library always housed a trove of undiscovered friendships and forays, and a bookstore, a place where those temporary connections might become a constancy, must always hold a charm over any scholar's heart.

Michelle Franklin

#36. The day is coming when, in 45 seconds, you can download a movie.

Brian Roberts

#37. If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'

Brian Helgeland

#38. There's something in everyone only they know.

Ben Harper

#39. I pitch Mint to everyone from investors to engineers, young and old, and I do it pretty much the same way: Here's the problem in the market place, here's how we solve it, and here's how we make money.

Aaron Patzer

#40. The World Cup was a huge frustration because I had prepared really hard for it. But in the World Cup there is no formula, no recipe for success.

Kaka

#41. You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

Brian De Palma