Movie Quotes

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

We never thought the first movie would bomb.

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

Simultaneously, the movie business now experiments with a colorblind approach to casting.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

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.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!

Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.

With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.

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.

Warren Beatty has always acted like a Movie Star even when no one knew who he was.

The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.

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 kind of dirty for having done that.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

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.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

If no producer, no movie.

If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

I absolutely love television, and I don't mean to be vulgar, but as I keep having to explain to people from the movie industry, I get more power and more money doing television, so why on earth would I do a film?

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect . . . You know, I'm in.

You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.

I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.