As a storyteller, when you’re writing a movie and when you’re directing, you want to keep people entertained. That’s the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; a good horror movie should be exciting to watch and energizing in a weird kind of way.

We were overwhelmed by the response to this. Names came from everywhere. Past presidents, well known movies, names based on the penguins’ black and white coloring and names that translated into different languages.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

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I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven’t done it yet, but I tried to get close...

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles… it’s a small percentage.

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...

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

The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, ‘That was a nice movie.’ But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue...

In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.

The first ‘Star Wars’ movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything – it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a...

You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.

If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were all just fill-ins for a long-running soap opera. The actors changed, but the...

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea’s an idea.

I watched ‘Ghostbusters’ from the age of four. It’s my favorite movie, still. Bill Murray’s, like, the weirdest straight man that you’ve ever seen. He’s convinced that he’s the normal one, even though he’s definitely...

If I’m going to write a book every American will want to read, it’s got to have lots of pictures. Those pictures must also move, and all the words in the book must be spoken...

I’ve had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I’m trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don’t want to do that. It just makes me feel...

As far as… what they’ve given me so far, in the last two movies — I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it’s always great to...

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the...

I’m gonna do four or five of these movies, and it’s going to become my career. I’ll have to keep expanding the bat suit, because I get fatter every year. I’ll be bankrupt. I’ll be...

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there.

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn’t know what to do! You can’t be a movie director without real preparation.

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,...

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.

I had a dream about you while having a dream about you. We were watching the movie Inception and drinking déjà vu.

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

I’m inspired by my master’s movie ‘Kerd ma lui,’ Bruce Lee’s ‘Fists of Fury,’ and Jackie Chan’s ‘Police Story.’

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...

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.