Movie Quotes

I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

I have no desire to carry a movie.

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing.

Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

Hollywood have been in touch; they want to make a movie of my life.

I dyed my hair blonde in that movie, so my head doesn't match my grill.

Well, I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.