Movie Quotes

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'

'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

Zhang is a friend of mine: he said forget about acting and just do normal things in the movie.

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

No matter what people say, your fans are the ones that come to watch the movie or come to your shows and that's the most important thing.

Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two guys and no plot and it's basically like, 'Yeah! Let's drive a van made of weed!' And that's pretty much the movie.

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

I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.