Zemeckis Quotes

#1. Robert Zemeckis is a genius filmmaker who is an amazing individual. I feel really blessed that I've gotten to work with him on many different occasions.

Charles Fleischer

#2. I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I'd obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis.

Ernest Cline

#3. I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.

Peter Jackson

#4. In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.

Stephen Hunter

#5. I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

Doug Liman

#6. I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

Bruce Willis

#7. That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

Gregory Maguire

#8. We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

Robert Zemeckis

#9. Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

Robert Zemeckis

#10. You can't legislate sobriety.

Robert Zemeckis

#11. The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#12. What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.

Eckhart Tolle

#13. All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do. We're supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is [art] as much as poetry, in my opinion.

Robert Zemeckis

#14. The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.

Robert Zemeckis

#15. I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

Frank Miller

#16. As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.

Robert Zemeckis

#17. I'm addicted to documentaries. That's all I watch on television.

Robert Zemeckis

#18. I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.

Robert Zemeckis

#19. We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Robert Zemeckis

#20. People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Anton Chekhov

#21. Movies are movies. Some bend light through a lens. Some create moving images virtually. At the end of the day, movies are movies.

Robert Zemeckis

#22. From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money.

Robert Zemeckis

#23. Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

Constantin Brancusi

#24. I've always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they're at the right place at the right time and it's the right situation, it clicks. I've always felt that I've connected with screenplays. It's the romantic in me.

Robert Zemeckis

#25. In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.

Robert Zemeckis

#26. No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.

Robert Zemeckis

#27. I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could fit together. That was a really fun game to figure out how that worked.

Margaux Williamson

#28. I still consider myself a consumer of music more than anything else.

DJ Shadow