Movie Quotes

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers.

I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.

It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.

And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.

I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.

The reality is that each movie has got to be seen in its own light.

I recently found out about this other super movie star. He only works from about 11:00 to 4:00, so all his movies take like 120 days. But this was a lot of stuff to do in 35 days.

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.

Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.

I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany.

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.