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.

I don’t walk around like I’m a movie star because I don’t think of myself as a movie star. People usually don’t even notice me.

I don’t champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

If my ‘mind’ don’t mind, I don’t mind.

I don’t watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

There’s a lot going on at the end of the movie,

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I’d take a semester off, and then...

You know, we’ve got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it’s like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking...

I’ve cut myself out… I’ve cut scenes out that I was in and that’s when you realize that you’ve got to make the best movie you can.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his...

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

Jaws 4 is so bad it makes Jaws 3 look like Jaws 2.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

I’m never aiming to make a movie like someone else’s movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn’t seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

I wasn’t trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

And if you’re a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it’s not great, then you’re not going to believe in the golf story, you’re not going to believe in...

I would say the biggest difference is that a movie is a shorter, more encapsulated experience, and a TV job is like having a regular day job where you get to do what you love.

After I made my hit in ‘Salome,’ Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

Whenever I’m feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It’s like watching a movie, but with your ears.

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it...

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It’s not to mimic her. It’s to remind myself to be more committed.

This year it’s very important because there are so many small movies chasing the last couple of (nomination) slots.

If I had to describe my penis with a movie title, it would be: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that...

Musically, there’s a movement called the flatted fifth that’s really evil-sounding. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. That movement is what gives you a real evil sound that conjures up...

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Writing fiction is the ‘job’ I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film...

perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.

The truth is, Colonel, that there’s no divine spark, bless you. There’s many a man alive no more value than a dead dog. Believe me, when you’ve seen them hang each other…Equality? Christ in Heaven....

Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but ‘JAG’ truly was a huge show. Lots of once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, like being launched off an aircraft carrier and being welcomed...

That’s absolutely the way it is, riding the minor league buses. It’s one of those movies I could watch over and over again.

When I’m in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I’m in a movie.

Our lives aren’t just measured in years. They’re measured in the lives of people we touch around us

Alexander’s widow came to Galesburg for the movie showing at the Orpheum. I think it opened at several theatres around the country at the same time.

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

If a movie doesn’t even have financing yet, they’ll do a table read for it at a casting director’s office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is...

It’s something we have to do, but it has to be done well, … These movies are so expensive we have to be careful … We’re pretty close. Hopefully by the end of this year...

I’d love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

I think Steven Spielberg has first movies! Martin Scorsese has first movies. I don’t just jump into something. I like the whole audition process.

I never want to turn something down because I’m afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I...

We create our own enemies

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women....