Movie Quotes

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.

I never want to become arrogant and think I've made a flawless movie.

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them.

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.

I steal from every movie ever made.

I want to make a movie that can grab people by the heartstrings.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.

To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie?

They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'

The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo.

'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then.

Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.

Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.