Movie Quotes - Page 38

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

I'm the number-one fan of gangster movies.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

I read a lot of summaries about the story [ based on the Cyrano de Bergerac. ]. I also watched Roxanne, the movie starring Steve Martin.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

Large-budget movies start to lose focus on the story and the actors, and it becomes purely about the visual, or CGI, or framing with the cranes, or whatever it may be.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

I love movies and I love to watch movies and being a part of the whole film experience. Being a filmgoer is a unique experience, and it can affect you on so many levels. But being an actor in movies you often have a very narrow palette for expressing yourself.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

I'd like to make a great movie. I've made many movies. I think I've made some good movies, but I never felt I've made a great movie.

I didn't go to Paris until I was a grown-up in 1965. And when I went to Paris, it was the Paris I knew only from American movies.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"

A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.