Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There’s a movie theater.

Life is a movie. You are the director in it. The choices you make, are the things that you will see. After you make a choice, there will be no going back, only simple things that will erase it.

This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

I’ll be there someday, I can go the distance.I will find my way, if I can be strong.I know every mile, will be worth my while,When I go the distance, I’ll be right where I belong. – Hercules

I would like to, in some capacity, observe how Tom Cruise goes about his business when it comes to making a movie and how he behaves on set and how he interacts with the crew because from everything that I’ve heard, it is the template for professionalism and just the way to conduct yourself as...

I don’t like the term ‘chick flick.’ I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what’s going on, the movie should work.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone’s relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.

I don’t want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

I’m my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don’t like it, you just don’t follow it. And if you don’t like a movie you don’t watch it. Watch another movie.

Most of those big movies are not that wonderful. This trend toward honoring smaller films ”’ it’s a very healthy one.

I like to make all kinds of movies. I’d do ‘Ocean’s Thirteen’ with the right script.

We feel in many cases we’re going to get a better response to some of our movies in Europe, or outside of the United States, than in the United States.

And even if you hate her, can’t stand her, even if she’s ruining your life, there’s something about her, some romance, some power. She’s absolutely herself. No matter how hard you try, you’ll never get to her. And when she dies, the world will be flat, too simple, reasonable, fair.

I had already made, like, 25 movies, playing a variety of roles, and it was a very frustrating time, … I really couldn’t get a job, and the only jobs I could get were, like, you know, these bit parts playing mobsters.

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It’s out there alive somewhere. It’s not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid’s going to do what it wants to do.

My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don’t know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting...

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

Sometimes when you’re editing a movie, you have the thing that you don’t expect – which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

I don’t think he’s an a-, … But if he’s going to persist in making bad movies, he’s going to have to grow accustomed to reading bad reviews.

You know, it’s not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it’s the people all around the country; it’s word-of-mouth.

There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it’s not just about the laughs. It’s really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what’s truly important.

I love every type of martial arts, but with Muay Thai in general, I want to see it being brought to the public more. There is no movie that has Muay Thai incorporated into it, so I want to bring that to the public.

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It’s like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.

You think what I’m doing is cruel, sadistic, but it isn’t… you aren’t even a real person, you don’t understand.”Alecto said nothing back to her.The television screen faded to black and Mandy just sat there in the darkness, her expression blank.

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won’t help me. I have to make the stars align.

At the end of Season Four of ‘Mr. Show,’ instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into ‘And Now For Something Completely Different,’ and everyone kind of compared ‘Mr. Show’ to Monty Python.

You know, they just don’t make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it’s sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.

Inconceivable!””You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world’s most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

I like movies a lot, and I feel really excited when I see a movie that moves me the right way.

When I’m in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I’ll hang out with B camera and watch what they’re up to and ask questions because there’s so much...

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It’ll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

We’re not asking for a trip to the movies, we’re just asking for what everyone else receives.

I’ve actually always wanted to be able to read people’s minds. My sister did a movie with super-powers and that’s the one I would have wanted, so I really lucked out. The negative is that people are really cruel in their own minds, but you can weed out the bad people from the good people,...

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that’s supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It’s what you don’t see that’s attractive.

People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

But see, that’s the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture of the characters and the scenes in your mind. You don’t have that with a movie. It’s all either up there on the screen laid out for you, or it isn’t there at...

I also couldn’t pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

If Mozart were alive today, I don’t think there’s any question he’d be writing for the movies. This was a guy who was always looking for ways to make money, and soundtracks can be a very lucrative field.

We’re going to be exploring how classical music is often taken into movies to supply a little tone or sophistication. And we’re also going to show how music that is specifically written for movies will sometimes catch on with the public and even manage to endure and become, in its own way, a sort of...

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds – film and science.

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren’t going to let me film it?

I think I approach my choices much the way I approach the way I consume movies and TV and stuff. I like everything, and sometimes I’ll feel like a horror movie, and sometimes I’ll just feel like an episode of ‘Hoarders.’

It’s really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don’t have as much responsibility when you’re acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.

I didn’t have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food from fast food places. I’d go into fast food chains and pretend I was from a movie studio, tell them they didn’t send us the right order and demand they fix it. I’ve tried...

I’m elected. I don’t report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to any politician, I’d quit tomorrow. I’m not tall, dark and handsome. They don’t vote for me because I look like a movie star. I can’t get that vote. People keep voting for me because they like...