Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jackie Chan

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

Jackie Chan

The movie business is a big gamble.

Jackie Chan

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

Jackie Chan

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Jennifer Aniston

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

Jennifer Aniston

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

Jennifer Aniston

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

Jeanine Basinger

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

Glenda Jackson

people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you're paid.

Gus Van Sant

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

Gus Van Sant

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

Gus Van Sant

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Ice T

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

Ice Cube

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Elton John

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Hugh Jackman

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

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.'