Movie Quotes
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Most people are extras in their own movie.
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I love to listen to lots of different genres of music, but mostly movie soundtracks and music theater.
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More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.
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I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.
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I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.
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Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.
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Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.
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My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
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Our kids seldom even get to see a movie. When we go to a movie, it's an event - and we make it an event.
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We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.
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I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.
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The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.
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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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I wonder if that's hurt me at the box office. Maybe audiences these days want to know exactly what to expect when they go into a movie, and my movies are hard to explain in just one way.
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After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.
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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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A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.
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I'm just happy when directors make a movie that is really sentimental but without being maudlin or saccharine or too much like Chewels gum. I don't want to be involved in a movie that's too much like a piece of Chewels.
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If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.
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Were there certain things that I didn't feel were dignified enough to make it into the movie? Yeah.
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The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
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I stand by every movie that I did. I don't regret any decision I made.
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The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.
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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.
