Movie Quotes

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel Gibson's roles.

I've never actually seen a Star Trek, but I have seen an Alien movie.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

It's a very charming movie about the mob - a real stretch for me.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why.

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.