Movie Quotes

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.

The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia.

The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'

You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.

I would rather have a small part in a really great movie than a big one in one that I'm not too psyched about.

I'll always stand by the first 'Batman'. Even for its imperfections, people will never know how hard that movie was to do. A lot of that still holds up.

But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.

People that went to art house theatre have more options, I used to go, but now think any movie can be delivered in a red envelope three months after it's released so why not watch it on my flat screen in the comfort of home.

In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.

Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.

I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

I can't believe I actually was in my own movie.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.

Right before Pamela Anderson met Tommy Lee I got this crazy script to do this incredible movie with her where I play this cop with a young partner like Brad Pitt who is in love with Pamela Anderson and he gets killed in the line of duty and she falls in love with me and it gets really crazy. I turned that down.

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.