Movie Quotes
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Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.
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Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.
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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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Finding one good script is a huge challenge. So I do a film whose script comes and grabs me. Once I finish that, I look forward to the next movie.
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I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
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No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.
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John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
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I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'
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Most people are extras in their own movie.
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I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.
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Studios are mercurial kind of creatures. A lot of the times getting a movie out can be as much luck as anything else.
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Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.
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It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.
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I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.
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A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
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Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.
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A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.
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I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
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Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
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I was a mess when the movie Into the Forest ended and I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest endings.
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On a smash TV series, you make much more money than you ever can in a movie. Do you know how much more Bill Cosby will make than Spielberg? The money for successful television is unbelievable.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.
