Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bai Ling

If I don't make movies, I'm okay too. I'll write books. I'll just sit here and watch the world go by. I'll feel comfortable.

Antoine Fuqua

If ICM can't get that movie made, then you have to go somewhere else where you can,

Gloria Swanson

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.

J. Lee Thompson

Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

Ivan Reitman

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

Ivan Reitman

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Guillermo del Toro

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

Greg Kinnear

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

Grace Jones

I loved all those classic figures from the '30s and '40s... Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth. They had such glamour and style. I loved the movies of those times too - so much attention paid to details, lights, clothing, the way the studios would develop talent.

Sean Penn

I choose movies that I think will speak to what's important.

Joel Edgerton

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.

Rob Schneider

I don't make movies for critics, but he irks me.

Kate Winslet

I don't own copies of my own movies.

Julianne Moore

I do like to work. I have my kids' books that I do, I have movies that I do, and I model.

Jodie Foster

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.

People are paying a premium to see movies in 3-D, and that's a very big deal. It's never been done before that someone says you have to pay more to see 'Spider-Man' than a romantic comedy.

Michael Lehmann

People always say, 'Why don't you make more movies like 'Heathers'?' And I say, 'I've been trying for 20 years.'

David Chase

I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.

Rebel Wilson

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

Viggo Mortensen

In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

Nicole Holofcener

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.

Leland Orser

Some of the big movies, you get checks for a long, long time.

Vivica A. Fox

I prefer to do movies, just for the simple fact that in TV, there's not much of a guarantee. They can pull the plug on you.

Vanessa Ferlito

I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.

Steven Seagal

All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio, and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do.

Louis Leterrier

I like the idea of a TV show. You take time to get to know your characters. You can introduce a lot of characters. You don't need your three-action set pieces that you usually need for movies.

Louis Leterrier

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

Susanne Bier

I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.

Harvey Fierstein

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Robbie Coltrane

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

Warren Spector

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

Avan Jogia

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

Gad Elmaleh

I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.