Control The Movie Quotes

#1. I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

Alfonso Cuaron

#2. That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

Debbie Allen

#3. For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

Kevin Smith

#4. I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.

Amanda McBroom

#5. Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

Tom Perrotta

#6. It depends on the way you shoot it. It's something I don't really control. The main goal is to make a funny movie, but then I let my mind go. I get lost sometimes in the writing, trying to find some special zones. That's the excitement of making a movie.

Quentin Dupieux

#7. The more I've acted, I've realised that I have a) no control of and b) no way of really quite understanding how people react to anything I do, or any movie I do.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#8. Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.

Rodman Philbrick

#9. As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

George Cukor

#10. I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.

Alex Borstein

#11. Don't let negative pictures play on the movie screen of your mind. You are the director and the audience. You are in charge. Take the remote control. Change the channel. If you let your imagination run wild, let it run wild in a positive direction.

Joel Osteen

#12. Being in control of your own destiny is a myth - and wouldn't be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it's still okay to feel responsible for someone else's.

Michael J. Fox

#13. In the case of the 'Saint' movie, I did do some research. I visited a few shelters. But usually, my stuff just comes out. I don't have any control over that.

Lyle Kessler

#14. You just make the best movie you can and hope for the best, because you don't have any control over what happens with the movie, whether the movie is misinterpreted.

Gregg Araki

#15. I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have ... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

John Cusack

#16. Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

Craig Bierko

#17. Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.

Claire Danes

#18. No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.

Paul Mooney

#19. I think that while you're making the film it's important to just keep your eye on the ball and make the best movie you can, and then realize that it's out of your control.

Joseph Kosinski

#20. When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor. So I went to architecture school in NYC, because I was crazy about buildings. Then I began to realize that I got more excited about Vogue coming out each month than I was about my projects.

Tom Ford

#21. I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them.

Harrison Ford

#22. I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

John Frankenheimer

#23. Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

Bret Easton Ellis

#24. I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

Esther Williams

#25. I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

Alan Arkin

#26. If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

Michael Caine

#27. I'll tell you what, I had complete control on 'Unleashed.' I directed, produced, chose the musician, picked the costumes, and everything. I never had anyone saying, 'I don't like this and I don't like that.' The studio, Universal, were easy. It was this weird movie no one cared about.

Louis Leterrier

#28. You always like to be the collaborator. I don't want to take over the movie, because if I want to do that, I should really become a director because then you have the control of everything, basically. I'm very happy to just be the visual part of it, doing the visual part of the movie.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#29. You say you've a life, but i see it as movie being directed by someone else, being edited often here and there.
life is when you've the remote control of it, and its been controled by the person you love.

Ayan Khan

#30. It's very hard to impose your beliefs or a specific message about any given movie. I think that audiences always extract what they want from a film even if something isn't overtly political. They may or may not get it, and it's hard to control that.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#31. So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

Charlize Theron

#32. When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

Kathleen Kennedy

#33. Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world.

Kim Dotcom

#34. I'm willing to give up a little control but not a lot. So I say I want the money, but when push comes to shove, I'm not sure I'll be able to compromise in order to make the big studio movie. Maybe something in between would be okay, like a low-budget studio film.

Nicole Holofcener

#35. Just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.

Arianna Huffington

#36. I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

Leonardo DiCaprio