Movie Quotes
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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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I really liked the Jean-Luc Godard movie, 'Film Socialisme.'
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I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.
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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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I'm more of a comic-book movie fan than a comic book fan.
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To see my story turned into a movie is mind-blowing.
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When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.
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When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.
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People would say to him, "When you finish a movie, did it come out as good as you thought it was going to?" Or, "Did it come out the way you intended it to come out?"
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If I have an idea I want to put in a movie, I know what camera will make that look best, and I have ideas for future projects and stuff I'd like to build for those. I think it's just part of how I work, though.
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One of the annoying things when you're in a movie is that gets talked about is everyone projects meaning onto everyone's intentions.
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I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.
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We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.
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It's definitely surreal to watch yourself in a movie.
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There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same time, so if somebody tells me that this is a movie about retired opera singers, you think 'maybe I'll wait for it to come to DVD'. You're not rushing off to see it.
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My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
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The stuff that I've been doing lately is political. It's not always about people who are super famous movie stars. The fact that people are still taking a chance and listening to the blacklist episodes is really exciting.
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In a Tim Burton movie, you know it's going to be something unusual, or a bit mad. Something "other."
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If the movie's not communicating, it's not working.
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Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.
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You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.
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A script is like a theory of a movie.
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I always viewed life as material for a movie.
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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.
