Movie Quotes - Page 9

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

Duets is about six people, so it's like three different movies - three different duets. I was on the set 18 days, spread out over three and a half or four weeks.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling sounds from the world around us is a great way to cement that illusion because you can go out and record an elevator in George Lucas's house or something, and it will have that motor sound.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Revealing yourself, physically or emotionally, to cast and crew is frequently uncomfortable. But it is essential if you want to to tell the truth. I felt more at ease being bold with some than I did with others. I was incredibly fortunate to have worked with Randy Harrison as Justin Taylor. We share enough taste in music and art to have had a real camaraderie, and luckily that evolved into a deep friendship.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.