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.

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.

That’s the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they’ve never been before. The details, that’s what the...

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.