Movie Quotes

I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.

The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have.

All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.

I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.

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.