Movie Quotes
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Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'
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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
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If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.
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I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
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Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
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I chose 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' specifically 'cause I had just made 'The Bourne Identity' and made a film that glamorized being an action hero, and I wanted to make the exact opposite. I wanted to make a movie that glamorized maintaining a marriage, and that made the action hero part seem easy and made the marriage part seem hard.
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I love Jamaica so much. I've been there so much, and I think it would be great if we could shoot a movie there.
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My favorite movie is 'Iron Man.' I tell people that I think it's just as good as 'Dark Knight,' if not better, and people tell me I'm crazy. I really like 'Iron Man.'
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I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
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It's really hard to make an original movie of any kind that succeeds in the theatrical market place, in the wide release market place.
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Whether it's a blessing or a curse, I have always played someone like 10 years younger. When I was 23 or 24, I was playing 15 opposite Evan Rachel Wood in a movie called 'Pretty Persuasion.' She was 16 and nobody in a million years would have thought I was that much older than her.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
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A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.
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I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.
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A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
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And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
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Often, when you're on a movie set, you're miserable. It's cold. You're hungry. You're tired. It's still dark out. And yet, there's no place I'd rather be. It's the happiest I am, and the most calm.
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.
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I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood.
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I just think if you play it, it seeps in, it seeps into the performances, it seeps into the atmosphere of the movie. And a lot of times I used the music ... while they were doing the scene.
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I can't tell you how many incredible directors I long to work with, but then I look at their IMDb page, and they haven't made a single movie about a woman.
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I'm not a big movie-goer. I just feel like I'm watching work.
