Movie Quotes - Page 5

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

If I could rub a genie and anything could happen? Truthfully, my other love, and this is a complete 180, but I'd love to do a spy or an espionage pic, like a James Bond movie.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

What I always tell people is... Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car than not do it, find something else to do as a career and do filmmaking as a hobby. This industry is one of the hardest to break into and be successful. It takes a lot of passion and dedication for it to get anywhere.

Bite off more than you can chew, then keep chewing.

You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

There's nothing creative about living within your means.

You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

I'm a fan of action movies.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

If there was another Dr. Quinn movie, I would do it in a heartbeat.

That's probably when I get the most angry at American movies, when they just so cynically manipulate the audience without even trying to give a good story.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.