Movie Quotes

I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.

I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the "Hannah Montana" movie that will be out in the spring.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.

I'm not looking at an action movie as something where I just jump around and look beautiful and show my muscles. Since there are so few people that do this and have that pedigree, people disregard their contribution.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.