Movie Quotes - Page 11

When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'

Movies are like magic tricks.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely - legend, Mr Wayne.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

The Dracula movies are probably some of the most famous and enduring ones there are and I am very grateful to them, for sure.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

You can call me Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier.

You can't handle the truth!

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all — that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open — has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

There are no Asian movie stars

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

I’m not producing movies to make money

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.