Movies Quotes

I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.

In Kevin's movies I would like to stay Jay.

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there.

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

I really unfortunately don't have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people's movies and I think that's the way to do it.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.