Movie Quotes

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

I dyed my hair blonde in that movie, so my head doesn't match my grill.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

And the fact that you must make the movie for yourself because no one else will ever fully appreciate the endeavor, makes it a more rewarding challenge.

Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'

I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.

It was cool to do someone else's movie. It was a lot of fun.

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.