Quotes About Film

'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.

I don't have a 'favorite' movie.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

I see the first 'Bourne' movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

I am not one of those actors who will abandon my flagship serial, my main claim to fame, just because I've done a hit movie.

I made my first movie when I was five.

As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

I got into the movie business because of 'Days of Heaven.'

I always loved movies as a child, and I love story. I got my degree in English. Film and story seemed, to me, the vector of the movie business. I really didn't know what 'the film business' meant, but I decided I wanted to be in it.

I've been the movie business for over 50 years, and I've done everything imaginable that could be done or ever was done by anybody.

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set.

My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

I am a movie star.

Working with Zhao Wei and Huang Xiaoming, they're not just Chinese stars, they're movie stars.

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.