Movie Quotes - Page 20

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read?

In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.