When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it’s yours.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

I really liked John Candy in ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles.’ He was so good in that movie.

The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let’s face it.

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...

I think it’s obvious when you’re watching a movie, and there’s people fighting or someone’s slipping on the side of the building, that it’s fake and it really removes you from it.

I’m not in a contest. I make movies. I’m not a racehorse,

A movie star is someone people look at and go, ‘I want to be like that person’. There’s the responsibility of desire. It’s not something I’m interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it,...

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It’s like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in...

You go back to the sort of Errol Flynn movies, and the real swashbuckling kind of things, and yeah, I knew about them.

We have to promote a movie. It’s just extraordinary that everybody I’m talkin’ to loves this movie.

It’s very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of...

Those are usually your better parts because you’re not worried about the likeability, … I think it’s a great movie because of the idea that we’re not afraid to be at moments unappealing and true...

When you make a 3-D movie you actually have to plan the way the visuals look because there’s a parallax issue, and there’s an issue of editing; you can’t edit very quickly in 3-D because...

The premise of Nossiter in ‘Mondovino’ would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously...

Most people live life on the path we set for them. Too afraid to explore any other. But once in a while people like you come along and knock down all the obstacles we put...

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...

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

I get a lot from all young people. I make movies for young people. If I made pictures for people my age, no one would see them. I hang with young people all the time.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I’ve never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.

I’m a huge fan of movies, and I watch DVDs all day, and I like to be able to watch DVDs that are different from what was in theaters. Whether that’s uncut or a director’s...

One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

I watched ‘The Muppet Movie’ obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

One of the annoying things when you’re in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone’s intentions.

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

The first movie I did was ‘Dan in Real Life,’ which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green.’

I’d love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I’ll do the role. And if it’s for TV, I’ll ask myself, ‘Is it a show that I’d watch?’ If it’s...

ALPHA-60: Your name is written “Ivan Johnson,” but it is pronounced “Lemmy Caution,” Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville.CAUTION: I refuse to become what...

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can’t in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

If you really don’t care what an audience thinks, make a home movie and show it on your wall.

I’ve got to see my movie to see how I’m acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

For there to be a ‘Community’ movie just seems like an appropriate way for the show to go out. That would be my perfect end.

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

When I watch a movie, I don’t make a sound or move. The more I’m into the movie, the more bored I look.

I couldn’t spell anything. I couldn’t remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

It’s still a trip for me to see somebody that I’ve only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it’s very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner...

I can’t wait to see The Grinch. It’s so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I’m stoked. It’s like real life.

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

The problem is we are not eating food anymore, we are eating food like products. (Hungry For Change Film)

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.

I was the first companion to kiss the Doctor. I played Grace Holloway to Paul McGann’s Doctor in the 1996 TV movie. We shared three kisses, in fact: very sweet and chaste. When I took...

Just keep Swimming!

See, I’m fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I’m thinking, He’s not talking about the movie.

We’re producing a movie now, ‘The Onion’ Movie, and it’s very difficult for me to be on the set. If I’m not right in the trenches, it’s very difficult for me to watch another director,...

The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, ‘The Exorcist.’ It is a must-see horror/thriller classic. I watch it every couple of years.