Movie Quotes - Page 14

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse people, so all the information is given to them right away, and there's nothing left for the film to do. It ruins many stories, because everything becomes obvious and predictable. I want my films to engage people more and make them more actively involved in the story.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

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

It's not an old movie if you haven't seen it.

A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars.

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

Self-plagiarism is style.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.