Movie Quotes

You become the movie you are making.

That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties.

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

The money part is one of the most difficult things. Coppola always said I should do a tango movie. If it hadn't been for him, I don't know where we would have gotten the money.

Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.