I’d rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

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.

With great power comes great responsibility.

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.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

It’s a big part of what we do – we test our movies extensively. I’m always there myself. It’s sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it’s a version of the movie that’s not working...

When I was a kid going to the movies, we’d go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn’t know what the story was about or anything.

Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.

This rally is the perfect storm. It’s surreal, it’s like watching a movie.

Sometimes I don’t know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?”–Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout – rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story – but the chord has to be resolved.

1925’s ‘The Lost World’ is… really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits...

I’d like to make mistakes on my own dime and not have a herd of people tell me what I’m doing wrong. and I’m also still trying to find and develop my voice as a...

I think what’s cool about a body-switching movie is, ‘The grass is always greener:’ the idea that someone else has a better life than I do.

I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.

I don’t want to just make horror movies; I don’t want to just make any type of movie – I don’t just like horror movies, I love movies.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

‘Life Aquatic’ was the first movie I did, and it’s been an incredible adventure since then.

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

I said, ‘I don’t know how to write a scary movie,’ and he told me, ‘Just pull all the skeletons out of your closet,’ … Over the weekend, I wrote The Last House on the...

When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don’t look at it.

The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when...

It’s kind of hard coming from ‘Saturday Night Live,’ which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie.

Do you know how much damage we could do to each other in an hour?

Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.

A movie that I’ve seen probably the most is ‘Fanny & Alexander,’ the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don’t know how much...

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

When you make a movie, it’s just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

You can not go back. That’s why it’s hard to choose. You have to make the right choice. As long, as you don’t choose, everything remains possible.

The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

The movie that’s had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I’m in the ocean, I’m hearing that music.

RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses...

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...

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a ’70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.

Are Christians too stupid that we can’t write a script, we can’t film a movie OR we don’t know how to act?

I’ve never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I’ve been to Los Angeles on my hands. I’ve never made a movie there and I’ve never been there for working reasons. The...

I don’t know if ‘Crash’ is a good movie or not because I didn’t set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment.

Turning one’s novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

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...

You know, movies are often made by tying up the hamburger rights and rubber-doll rights before the script is even approved.

‘Superbad’ was such a personal movie.

I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending

I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, ‘Dial M for Murder,’ and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in...

Mind you, Roman Holiday – which is kind of a romantic comedy – is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.

The production team’s first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration.