Movie Quotes
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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.
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Sundance is such an acquisition-frenzied, industry-centric experience, and at SXSW, many of the movies have distribution. And the focus is more on positioning the movie as opposed to selling them. People are more relaxed.
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It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.
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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff.
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I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That's the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before.
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Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.
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Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise.
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The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources of finance are considering a project, they ask themselves, "Does this lend itself to a simplistic marketing approach which will guarantee a big opening weekend?" As a movie-goer, I think that's tragic, because when you look back at those movies that made us fall in love with movies in the first place, most of them were not high-concept, and most of them would not have "won their weekend."
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'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.
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There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him.
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I think crafting a new, effective horror movie is not just about when night falls and things get scary. It's about setting a tone and mood that permeates throughout the entire movie. So even during the daytime, things are never quite safe-feeling.
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There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.
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My first movie was with Mike Nichols.
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You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.
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You're always in a tunnel that you can't see the end of. But there's something that took place on this movie that I don't think we expected and that was that once we decided that the entire cast would be real retired opera singers and retired musicians... and these people the phone hadn't rung for them for 20 or 40 years even though they can deliver.
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I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be 'Apocalypse Now,' and every director doesn't have to be Stanley Kubrick.
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Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next year; a classic movie soon after, with Gregory Peck in an Academy Award-winning role.
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This is a very pivotal time in America and I think families are still reeling from events depicted in that movie The Big Short.
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The movie 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' was a sacred text in my household.
Colson Whitehead
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I'd rather do one day on a really cool movie than six months on something crap.
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Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so much you can do as an actor in a movie.
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Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
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It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.
