Movie Quotes

Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'

I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.

Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

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.

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.

I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.