Movie Quotes - Page 30

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Never rub another man's rhubarb.

Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.

Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.

There are so many books and movies I like I never mention specific ones.

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.