Movies Quotes
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'
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I love going to movies.
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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.
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I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.
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Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit.
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The movies I've done with Wes Anderson have a much different quality than some of the more broad comedies. But what is interesting is how many sequels I've done. I've worked with Ben Stiller a million times now, and this is yet another sequel we're doing. I guess we're lucky to be in some movies that people wanted to see again.
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I'm just gonna make movies the best I can, do the festival thing or whatever can come. I plan on working with a lot of the same guys over and over again. I hope the majority of us can stick together.
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Every time I stand in front of mirror, I found my face too ugly, so I thought I have to get the role in some movies which cover my face with make up.
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I like Bejoy's style of movie making, and the music is always so good in all his movies.
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People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.
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I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.
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It's something we have to do, but it has to be done well, ... These movies are so expensive we have to be careful ... We're pretty close. Hopefully by the end of this year we'll be able to do that.
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It's just as hard staying happily married as it is doing movies.
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In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it's a legacy.
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I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
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When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.
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We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore 1998 and Tenenbaums.
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I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.
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I would rather stop making movies too soon than too late.
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I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.
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The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.
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Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.
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One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.
