Movie Quotes

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

I don't care what TV show you work on, even a movie for that matter, it's all about time and money eventually.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.

I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.

My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.