Quotes About A Movie

#1. As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

Fede Alvarez

#2. I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

Melanie Lynskey

#3. I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.

Artie Lange

#4. I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story.

Ferdie Pacheco

#5. After 'Bhaji On The Beach', I didn't make a movie for six years. I couldn't get a movie off the ground for love nor money. It was a very tough time and I almost gave up. If I had been an Oxbridge bloke after 'Bhaji', my career would have been very different

Gurinder Chadha

#6. Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Julian Schnabel

#7. I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

Tarsem Singh

#8. The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

Stanley Kubrick

#9. It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

John Requa

#10. When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

Jane Fonda

#11. I went to watch a movie in a theater, a couple weeks ago, and the trailer came on. My face is in the trailer, and then my name came up on the credits, and this is the dream you dare to dream, that came true.

Robert Kazinsky

#12. If you offer me a starring role in a movie, I have no interest.

Daniel Tosh

#13. I usually decide if I'm going to do a movie based on if I like the script or not. I thought 'Pulling Strings' had every single element that a classic romantic comedy needs to be a success. It's very well written. The cast was amazing. It was a decision I made based on the power of the script.

Jaime Camil

#14. The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated by the kind of people who dig Showgirls, the Saw franchise and Spike Jonze-Charlie Kaufman flicks.

Rex Reed

#15. If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.

Al Pacino

#16. I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

Alicia Witt

#17. Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#18. Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

Sam Raimi

#19. When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

Benicio Del Toro

#20. Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for some reason we came up with a romantic comedy.

Susanne Bier

#21. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

John Le Carre

#22. Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

Kevin Bacon

#23. Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger.

Renny Harlin

#24. Sometimes one of my ways of choosing movies that I want to do is if it's the kind of movie I would have gone to see when I was a kid, and this is a movie I actually did go see, as a kid. And I think it will be exciting for audiences to see now.

Samuel L. Jackson

#25. Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.

Robert Breault

#26. If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone.

Stephen Chbosky

#27. When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

Linda Ronstadt

#28. But a movie doesn't have to be good if it has Hugh Jackman.

Jesse Andrews

#29. My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Brion James

#30. I want to have a movie where people's eyes are glued to the screen, not when they're running from the screen.

Rod Lurie

#31. Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something ... I don't know!

Cara Delevingne

#32. I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

Lisa Kudrow

#33. The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.

William L. Jenkins

#34. Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

Jimmy Fallon

#35. You can make an interesting character in a small portion of a movie, for a character that doesn't have that much on the page, if you just find the contradictions. That's something that I try to bring to my performances.

Joel Kinnaman

#36. You're learning the whole time. Halfway through a movie, you've got a lot of ideas, a lot of things that maybe you've learned and that you then wish you could apply, but you can't. You just have to finish the movie in that world that you're in. Maybe what you've learned you can apply somewhere else.

Fred Schepisi

#37. First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

Harvey Weinstein

#38. They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.

Chevy Chase

#39. I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.

Michiel Huisman

#40. Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.

Chris Evans

#41. I worked on three independent movies in close succession and ... I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.

Michael Urie

#42. Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Alanis Morissette

#43. I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

Kim Cattrall

#44. You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm a dancer and a singer in. I want to do movies that people can take me more seriously in as an actor, because when you're making that transition, it is tough.

Marques Houston

#45. In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

Eddie Murphy

#46. Among them the nameless girl, with her guillotine mouth, strolling through the past and the future like a movie face.

Roberto Bolano

#47. I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie ... it's all some kind of an escape.

M. Ward

#48. I'd love to go out on a Saturday night with my friends and watch a movie, but that happens really like once a year or a couple of times.

Lydia Ko

#49. There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

Alessandro Nivola

#50. TV drama - not always, but on the whole - were pretty appalling and very secondary, too. No one expected it to be like watching a movie; that was the point. But I think when you start watching 'Vikings,' it is like watching a movie - you're taken somewhere else.

Michael Hirst

#51. The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.

David Cronenberg

#52. I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.

Etgar Keret

#53. If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

Lloyd Kaufman

#54. If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#55. To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.

Lenny Bruce

#56. Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart.

Grant Bowler

#57. I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

Gary Ross

#58. If film critics could destroy a movie, Michael Bay and Adam Sandler would be working at Starbucks. If film critics could make a movie a hit, the Dardenne brothers would be courted by every studio in town.

Alonso Duralde

#59. It's very funny because every time I make a movie, and I've heard this re-echoed by other filmmakers and actors I have worked with, you kind of feel like you're naked again. You have to figure it all out from scratch, as if you had never done it before.

Todd Haynes

#60. One interview would lead us to another interview, which led us to another interview. We had the questions and the idea of chonicling this moment in time. But we didn't have a movie, per se. As we started interviewing people, it started to kind of define itself.

Keanu Reeves

#61. I'm not a movie-based person, in terms of how it affects my career, the industry. I don't care about that. I probably haven't been too smart about that.

David Caruso

#62. When somebody is making a movie about your life, that's different. A show is a live performance. Things are going to go wrong. You are going to get away with things. A movie is indelible. A movie is through a microscope.

Frankie Valli

#63. When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

Mark Waters

#64. The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

James Fallows

#65. I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.

Christian Bale

#66. Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

Joel Edgerton

#67. Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie. You have to wait till the end of it to see, oh, I see, those actors are in it, so that one's a movie. Oftentimes, it's based on a video game.

Billy Bob Thornton

#68. I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.

Steven Shainberg

#69. Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

Richard Gere

#70. I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie.

Niall Horan

#71. I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

Eli Roth

#72. Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

Christopher Walken

#73. We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.

Nick Cassavetes

#74. Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

Phil Silvers

#75. I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

Ang Lee

#76. Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.

Eli Roth

#77. When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.

Taylor Lautner

#78. Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid's going to do what it wants to do.

Trey Parker

#79. At the end of the day, it is just a movie, and we should remember that we're doing it for the audience, and we should have fun doing it. If we have fun doing it, it will come across on the screen.

Luke Bracey

#80. Big hooks have always been a part of American movie-making. So, to make a movie where you're just driving story through the characters without a high-concept is a challenge.

Steve Pink

#81. I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to show where that person is coming from. They're doing it from a necessary impulse. There is a struggle that's going on within them as a human.

Dane DeHaan

#82. You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.

Woody Harrelson

#83. I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

Owen Wilson

#84. [Wearing padding to make my breasts look larger for a movie] was great, but it also made me think, you know, a lot of women who go out and get implants, what's so insecure about them that they would rather have someone look there than in their eyes?

Lara Flynn Boyle

#85. It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.

Jason Patric

#86. I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.

Claire Denis

#87. You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

Jon Favreau

#88. I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.

Natalie Dormer

#89. I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

Ben Affleck

#90. To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.

James Bay

#91. Sometimes I know things before they happen. Sometimes I can see a scene in my head. Like watching a movie, and then it will happen. I think, did I make it happen? Or did I just see it somehow?

Katherine Applegate

#92. Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

Tommy Chong

#93. To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

Michel Hazanavicius

#94. It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie [ "World Of Tomorrow" ] out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

Don Hertzfeldt

#95. Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.

Luis Bunuel

#96. I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

Paul Scheer

#97. Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision.

Christine Vachon

#98. I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.

Andy Warhol

#99. I would love to do a movie.

Shay Mitchell

#100. It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.

Jared Harris