Movie Quotes - Page 15

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

There's no thief like a bad movie.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.