Movie Quotes

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'

The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.

I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.

People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.

Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story.

I'm making a movie about relationships, and I'm surrounded by guys scared of talking to girls.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

You become the movie you are making.

That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.