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

When I was a kid, I was into psychological thrillers. When I was 12, my favorite movie was ‘Thirteen.’ I just really liked movies that showed an extreme range in acting. That’s what made me...

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

I thought I was attractive when I shot ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding.’ Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what’s going on, the movie should work.

I don’t care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so...

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I’ve ever produced.

I watch mostly every martial arts movie… I really like movies that aren’t just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.

I’ve been disappointed by so many movie stars that I’ve seen, and they go out and they don’t do it up, you know. And they don’t – I just get so disappointed.

Womens Heart Is The Ocean Of Secrets..

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.

I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won’t say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.

[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I...

I love movie directors. I don’t care who it is.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like ‘Star Trek’ is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

For the funeral I needed a plus one, so I rented a hooker. And then I rented a movie. Rest in peace Grandpa, or whoever you were.

Stahl trailed him upstairs, across a mezzanine, and out into the darkness of the sloping balcony. Tom gave the aisle his torch so his guest could see. On the screen below a woman’s head was...

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren’t force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

I do think ‘The Notebook’ is a darn good movie.

‘Henry V’ is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you’ve seen.

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like ‘Midnight in Paris.’ Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.

What we know about our customers is not that they won’t go to the movies if they know it will be on DVD soon. Au contraire — what we know about our customers is they...

Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

Every time you make a movie it’s an adventure.

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.

I mean, I don’t mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it’s going to be used in some way.

Unless you’re trying to make a movie on the sly, there’s no way to get around this. If you want to use public spaces, film on the streets, have the cooperation of the police, you...

I’ve seen all of the movies. I’m an old-school Bond fan. Sean Connery is our band’s favorite Bond. Shirley feels a kinship with him because they’re both from Scotland.

It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can’t. A...

I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don’t know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it...

I cried during Old Yeller. Not the part when the dog got shot, but in the beginning, just before the movie actually starts.

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that’s not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and...

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...

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...

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.