Movie Quotes

• You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • Money
  • Movie

• It's interesting to work with Emma Watson so quickly after Harry Potter. When we shot this movie, it wasn't that long after Harry Potter was finished, and it's knowing that's a big transition in her life. She's a very talented young woman.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Work
  • Talented
  • Harry Potter

• Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Money
  • Career
  • Single

• I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie... it's all some kind of an escape.

  

  M. Ward
  • Music
  • True
  • Painting

• I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Movie
  • Risk

• People don't talk about how hard it is to make a movie. Nobody does. Ever.

  

  Doug Liman
  • People
  • Movie

• When somebody says, 'Do you want to play Dr. Dre in a movie?' I mean, how do you respond to that? My initial response was 'no' because I don't think I can do it ,and I don't want to be the one to mess it up!

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Up
  • Movie

• The thing I always loved about the movie business is it is really a cowboy industry in the sense that there's no prescribed road into it or through it.

  

  Anthony Russo
  • Business
  • Road
  • Cowboy

• I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

  

  Joan Crawford
  • Girl
  • Star
  • Door

• If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

  

  Carol Alt
  • Time
  • Movie

• Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • Mind
  • Movie

• I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had not paid them back. They could have said 'No,' and it would have ended, and I would have gotten a real job.

  

  John Waters
  • Real
  • Money
  • Job

• I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

  

  Andre Balazs
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• I want to be a part of a movie that changes people's conceptual framework, and suddenly you see things in a different way.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • People
  • Different
  • Movie

• There's nothing I hate more than going to see a movie and thinking, 'That could have been an hour shorter.'

  

  Joe Russo
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Hate

• I'm currently shooting 'Ava's Possessions,' which is a really fun movie about a woman who gets possessed by a demon. I call it 'Memento' meets 'The Exorcist.'

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Demon

• If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

  

  Lili Taylor
  • Up
  • Movie

• My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Movie

• I loved playing Sasha. You don't have this on every job, or every show or movie, but every day was really an adventure, character wise, for what I got to do at that age.

  

  Brigid Brannagh
  • Job
  • Adventure
  • Sasha

• To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture. We're making a movie. We're making it like we're putting on a play.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • World
  • Movie

• I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.

  

  John Carney
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• You show a movie to your friends when you're working on it, but you don't have any real objectivity. You just don't know. So that moment when it's shown for the very first time at Sundance, it's just terrifying. I'm so anxious. And then every screening is different.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • Time
  • Different
  • Real

• I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Movie
  • Adventure

• I always knew that the violence would be something that would be probably be brought up, but actually it's nothing to do with the movie. The first two minutes are all about establishing fear, that something horrible is going to happen. It [the violence] was done really quickly, and it wasn't like pornography where you can like dwell over it, you know. It had to be done, we had to kill some people.

  

  Paul McGuigan Oasis
  • Fear
  • Violence
  • Pornography

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