Movie Quotes - Page 16

Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it

Consciousness is the greatest movie-maker in the whole world.

I like action movies! Action movies are awesome.

I just think it's really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don't necessarily take them really seriously - I don't even think a lot of really good films get seen. But I don't think that's what it's about. I mean, how amazing was Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream ? Especially as she was acting with herself most of the time. I don't understand how a performance like that can't win. I was so affected by that movie that I had to turn it off. I felt as if I was on drugs and my heart was about to leap out of my body.

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

A boy's best friend is his mother.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.