Movie Quotes - Page 18

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.

Horror found me. I got into the movie business to make westerns.

Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and the way that we get knowledge from them, through television, old movies, which I watch a lot of. Lines of dialogue suddenly seem to be part of a poem.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

When I got the job I thought about her a lot. Not only was I getting a great job in a really good movie, but it was with Lindsay Lohan. She's so famous and I don't have any of that, I have never experienced that kind of intense scrutiny that she's under, so of course I wondered what it would be like acting opposite her. I can tell you that it's like being with The Beatles. You cannot fathom the kind of attention she gets. It's mind boogling.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.