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.

The running across the field thing, that was the first scene we shot in the movie. We asked the audience to stay for the scene, and 37,000 people stayed.

When I first came to California, it was fun and exciting to get any part in any movie and get paid for it. Because of my size and my background, it seemed like I was...

You never want your second act or the whole movie to just be this relentless march towards its goal. You want things to take the audience by surprise.

This is my one beef with Hollywood: It’s great for movie sales, but they’ve created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it’s going to get fixed, and...

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

I’m a damsel, I’m in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day!

Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it’s a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.

My very first acting gig was in a movie for Russ Parr. He did this movie called ‘Love for Sale,’ and that was my first role in any film.

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.

Don’t judge a book by its movie.

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you’re dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that’s a concern no matter what kind of movie you’re dealing with.

There’s a movie called ‘Pod People’ that has a weird little anteater alien. That was a good alien.

You can say what you want to about a rapper in a movie, but look at what Ice Cube has done. Ice Cube has created more opportunities for other actors to get jobs in this...

Before the beginning, after the great war between Heaven and Hell, God created the Earth and gave dominion over it to the crafty ape he called Man. And to each generation was born a creature...

It was more like a movie. Everyone was wearing black, gray, or white except for her. She was in a red dress, and like a herd of bulls, the crowd was angry and made charges...

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

All I’ve ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn’t finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around...

Growing up, I wasn’t sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they’d tell me that they’re still going to have to write it up negatively.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.