When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it’s a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

I really loved ‘Witches of Eastwick’, the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge...

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that’s supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common....

Most of those big movies are not that wonderful. This trend toward honoring smaller films ”’ it’s a very healthy one.

I would like to, in some capacity, observe how Tom Cruise goes about his business when it comes to making a movie and how he behaves on set and how he interacts with the crew...

I’m an artist, and I’m part of every decision in a movie.

Since I was a kid I’ve wanted to be in a Bond movie.

I took my crews to the movies this afternoon to escape the blistering heat for a couple of hours. Everyone is looking forward to going home and getting quality rest.

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There’s lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual… They don’t care about anything else.

When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to ‘The Witch’s Tale’ and ‘Inner Sanctum’ on the radio. I went to see ‘Frankenstein’ in the movie...

I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch ‘Titanic,’ and they were being...

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

Into the sky to win or die.

It does not matter what film you’re making. If you’re young and there’s romance in the movie, it’s compared to ‘Twilight’.

That’s the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don’t have to cover every scene.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

‘m really proud of it. To me, it’s a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character’s massive survival guilt.

I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly then all at once

It was like two movies — a horror movie on offense, but defensively, hey, one of the better ones. So you got a two-for-one.

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become ‘A Grand Day Out.’

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

If you’re doing a family movie, you don’t want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can...

Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you’re at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.

When I was recording my first solo album ‘Imaginaryland,’ I was listening to a lot of movie scores.

I’m the first to admit that I can’t be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

I’m a big Batman fan; to be honest, to be a part of any superhero movie would really fulfill all of my childhood fantasies. If I could get beaten up by Batman, and just be...

Well, uh… well, have fun watching your home movies then,” Mandy finished, but she didn’t have the slightest idea what he was talking about.

I am the sea and nobody owns me

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

It’s a big part of what we do – we test our movies extensively. I’m always there myself. It’s sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it’s a version of the movie that’s not working...

When I was a kid going to the movies, we’d go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn’t know what the story was about or anything.

Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.

This rally is the perfect storm. It’s surreal, it’s like watching a movie.

Sometimes I don’t know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?”–Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout – rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story – but the chord has to be resolved.

1925’s ‘The Lost World’ is… really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits...

I’d like to make mistakes on my own dime and not have a herd of people tell me what I’m doing wrong. and I’m also still trying to find and develop my voice as a...

I think what’s cool about a body-switching movie is, ‘The grass is always greener:’ the idea that someone else has a better life than I do.

I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.

I don’t want to just make horror movies; I don’t want to just make any type of movie – I don’t just like horror movies, I love movies.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I’ll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

‘Life Aquatic’ was the first movie I did, and it’s been an incredible adventure since then.

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.