Movies Quotes
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To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, ‘Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.
Francis Ford Coppola
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I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.
Jason Lee
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It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.
Natalie Portman
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Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.
Steven Soderbergh
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So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.
Ray Liotta
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I am not interested in simply working as a director. If I am not making movies that I want to make, that I feel passionate about, or that I feel are hopefully at the level of cinematic quality that I feel they should be then I am not really that interested.
Brad Furman
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I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
Ryan Phillippe
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To have three movies coming out at the same time - I probably will never have that again in my life.
Scoot McNairy
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I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.
Michael Pitt
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I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and the only place to be is right next to the camera in costume ready to go in order to get it. The years, and more specifically probably the four months prior to beginning shooting, is where the big preparation is that the director does because I knew we were going to get on the set. And the good news is, if you're the boss, if it ain't good, you don't use it. You just cut it out.
Tom Hanks
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All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.
Brian Koppelman
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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz