Ever Quotes

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move.