Movie Quotes - Page 17

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

The movie business is a big gamble.

it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

I don't think my name would necessarily draw people to come see the movie. It might hurt the movie, honestly.

The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Don't let's ask for the moon.We have the stars.

We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I love any comedic zombie movies.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

I'm not a method guy. I can't be bothered to have a method. I just want to be a part of a good movie and I can't stand to be surrounded by morons.

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.