Movie Quotes - Page 33

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made...

I love going back in time, and the only time you can really do that is on a movie set.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

I don't see all the movies that come out.

The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, they make bad movie after bad movie.

We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.

Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.