Movie Quotes
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Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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I love 'Heathers,' and I loved doing that movie. I'm very proud of it, so if it gets brought up, I'm happy.
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I get confused between the rock and roll thing and my movie star thing... We're f - -ing movie stars.
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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.
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Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!
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Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.
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Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.
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Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.
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Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some
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My weapon is just a movie.
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Some people come to you because if you're in their movie, it'll help them raise money. And some people come to you because they think you're the person to play the part.
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I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.
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I really liked the Jean-Luc Godard movie, 'Film Socialisme.'
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I've always loved the rush you get from watching a really scary movie, but I never watch them alone. It's fun to turn out the lights and scream and clutch someone's hand and spill the popcorn all over the place and hide under each other.
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I think there's a danger that some people look at the success of my first movie as a fluke. So I want to make sure that my second film is an even bigger success. Then if I direct my third movie and it's terrible, it'll be okay.
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If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.
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If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn't ever stop me.
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I always viewed life as material for a movie.
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I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
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I've done lots of improv things but not a whole movie.
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A lot of times, identifying with a character in a book or a movie makes me feel really vulnerable. Especially in books, it's like being able to see an amplified version of yourself, and it's very surreal.
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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
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When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.
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If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.
