Movie Quotes
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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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A script is like a theory of a movie.
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Years ago I was going to play Chet Baker in another movie and I really felt drawn to that character and the script is good and I met with Robert and we seemed simpatico and we developed. But I had a real passion for that role and that brought me deep into that film 'cause I got the sense that Robert Budreau was going to really let me be creative inside this part.
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I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
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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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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
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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.
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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I actually believed if you work hard enough it was inevitable you'd succeed. Then I lived the 'Social Network' movie, but only the first half. The hardest part is the grueling work of constantly being wrong.
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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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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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This is a way for his memory to be honored and have a presence in the movie.
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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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When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.
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Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly virtual reality is adopted. He's going to shows the whole world the potential of VR, which is one of the reasons I think he's doing it. Once you have to compose for 360 degrees, and a movie is different every time you watch it depending on where you choose to look, it's like the dawn of a new era.
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It wasn't a conscious decision to actually make a movie about Guantanamo Bay. It was a device.
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I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.
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'Rudhramadevi' is a film which falls into a very new genre. It is a historic and biographic genre movie. It should be called a bio epic. I am curious to see how the audiences accept the film.
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Usually you don't think about re-releasing an old movie.
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I always viewed life as material for a movie.
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I've made a career of being a contrarian. If I'm going to work with Tom Cruise, it's my instinct to be like, 'Well, I'm going to do the anti-Tom Cruise movie.'
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You do a movie, depending on the character, there's some degree of makeup involved, especially when you're playing a vampire and you're all white and kind of dead. Sleeves, regarding costumes, there are generally sleeves, which I appreciate. I think we all do.
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You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.
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What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.
