Movie Quotes

Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

The whole experience of working on this movie was so fun, and I had more fun working on that than I've had on anything else. I had more fun working than on my days off.

It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

We never thought the first movie would bomb.

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.