Movie Quotes - Page 12

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

The ones that love us never really leave us.

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.