Movie Quotes - Page 20

• I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

  Alex Winter

  Dream, Thinking, States

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.

  Fred Willard

  Pleasure, Happenings

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• Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

  Jason Statham

  Inspired, Busy, Jet

  Interview with Dan Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 15, 2003.

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• I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

  Mel Smith

  Thinking, Credit, London

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• I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

  Kevin Costner

  Halloween, Who I Am, Actors

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• All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Girl, Gun, Needs

  "Breathless continues to shock and surprise 50 years on" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. Junuary 5, 2010.

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• Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Couple

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• I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

  Ryan Gosling

  Character, Thinking, Order

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• I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

  Ryan Gosling

  Thinking, Actors, Rooms

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• I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Dollars, Actors, Bragging

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• At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

  Tom Hanks

  Funny, Thinking, People

  "The Cast Of ‘Larry Crowne’ Weighs In On Tom Hanks & This Summer’s Anti-Tentpole" by Leah Zak, www.indiewire.com. June 28, 2011.

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• All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

  Manuel Puig

  Needs, Stories, Actors

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• 'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

  Jason Reitman

  Names, Giving, Directors

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• People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

  Jason Reitman

  Character, Actors, Pieces

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2011.

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• Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

  Chris Rock

  Law, Actors, Said

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 16, 2011.

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• When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

  Henry Rollins

  Party, Thinking, Actors

  "EXCLUSIVE: Talking TV, Movies and Punk Rock with Henry Rollins". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 4, 2006.

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• I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

  Mike Royko

  Couple, Philosophy, Simple

  Mike Royko, Lois Wille (2000). “One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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• You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

  Marco Rubio

  Doors, People, Actors

  "Republicans Blast Obama After National Debt Surpasses Economic Output". www.foxnews.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

  Winona Ryder

  Stars, Children, School

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• Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Games, Ballet

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

  Zoe Saldana

  Sex, Gun, People

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• A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Algorithms, Actors

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• Movies are too literal.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Literal

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• In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

  Cameron Crowe

  Inspiring, Real, Directors

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