Movie Quotes

• I fundamentally believe that your words have so much credibility if you're not taking money upfront. I feel really comfortable pushing actors and pushing executives and pushing marketing people when we're not going to benefit financially unless the movie works. I feel like that makes the playing field so much more level.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• I was once up for a part, and the male star was also producing the movie. They were talking about meeting with him or having an audition with him, and then we get the message, 'He wants to have dinner with you.' I said, 'Is that the audition, or is it that he just wants to have dinner with me?'

  

  Geena Davis
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Star

• I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.

  

  Kieran Culkin
  • Movie

• Being the person who gets to make a movie about Wonder Woman, of course, I take that incredibly seriously. I am a huge Wonder Woman fan, and the aspiration comes totally naturally to me.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Movie
  • Wonder

• You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Time
  • Movie

• I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Risk

• I was fascinated by making a submarine movie, inspired by the Kursk disaster. This idea of being trapped down at the bottom of the sea seemed so terrifying. I was very interested in making a sub film which wasn't a military film. You think, Well, why are they there, then, if they're not in the military? Oh, well, they must be looking for treasure.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • Why
  • Military
  • Inspired

• I made a movie in Germany called 'The Chambermaid' - it was very, very small. I think it cost €70,000 to make. I even put some money in and raised some money for it. It was real German arthouse... It goes, somehow, out there on the Internet, and it goes on iTunes.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • Real
  • Money
  • Small

• I've never seen a movie in Hebrew about Jesus. I have three kids, I don't have enough time to watch TV.

  

  Aviv Alush
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Hebrew

• Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Light
  • Model
  • Magic

• I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. I come from the corn.

  

  Bill Moseley
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Star

• I had a meeting with the producer of 'Five Easy Pieces,' which is my favorite movie. He introduced me to Francis, and I spent six months going to Napa and Buenos Aires, auditioning for Francis and doing these incredible improvisational games. It was a very bohemian audition process.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Movie

• I certainly often go to a movie and don't remember exactly what the trailer had in it, except that it looked cool.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Cool

• There is a group of us that met through Howard Klein's class in Los Angeles. Howard Klein is a prominent acting teacher. We got together and did this short Night Music that was such an amazing experience, Guy and I were thinking, 'Okay, what do we do next?' So he wrote this next movie of his, Loulou.

  

  Boti Bliss
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Teacher

• I wanted to do something a little bit more feminine after my second movie, 'Joshy,' which was so masculine.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • Movie

• I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Interesting

• In a movie that's sort of a single monster movie, like 'Jaws,' once you see the animal, it identifies the threat, and you're able to start working on ways to take down the threat.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Single
  • Animal
  • Monster

• The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Movie
  • Feeling
  • Interview

• You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

  

  Jonathan Frakes
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Reality

• I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Movie
  • Grandparents

• And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Class

• When you're in a movie, they treat you like you're four years old and give you whatever you want. On some level it's really wonderful and gratifying, but on another level it's rather disturbing. I'm sure you've spoken to movie stars and wondered: How do these people survive without babysitters?

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Survive
  • Wondered
  • Disturbing

• The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • May
  • Movie

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