Movie Quotes

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.

I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star.

You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.

I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.

Every movie is unknown.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

High Noon is a pretty corny movie.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Gosh, it's so fun to do a movie where there's nothing dark happening in it.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.