Movie Quotes
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Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
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I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie.
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On a really big budget movie you do chemistry reads, and you sort of hedge your bets a little bit more and make sure that these people get along. But on the low budget side of things, I have to trust my gut that when I cast these people, the various elements are going to play together.
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I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.
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It's very difficult to have any kind of romantic feelings for a movie where you know exactly what's going to happen in the first five minutes.
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One of my first commercials was for a Samsung cellphone. It was made as a mini-movie.
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Ever since I was a little kid, I told my mom that I want to go to Hollywood and make a 'Batman' movie.
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Not everybody's life is a movie.
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If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great.
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Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
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I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'
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I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.
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The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.
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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
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I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.
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This is a culture filled with perfect images of women and perfect images of movie actresses, and most people can't live up to them.
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I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.
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I had the best time I ever had on a Jim Cameron movie - True Lies, 1994. It was the single most freeing experience as an actor I've ever had. And, of course, in the midst of it there was this humungous circus that he conceived.
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It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'
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This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.
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I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie theater, people eating in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling noises outside. I could be here all day.
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We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in the right way. They're not from or neighborhoods and communities so of course they can't truly relate to our experience. It's our responsibility to properly protect our people and to properly give them opportunities for employment.
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I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.
