Quotes About Movies

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

I feel like movies when they work they'll find an audience.

Some movies work and some don't.

I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.

In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

There are, of course, many, many, many good cinematographers and unfortunately they don't work as much as many of those people who do those crazy, stupid movies.

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

I am not too keen to do movies, as I don't have time to waste on struggling for a role in a film.

We all had our reservations about possibly overdoing it but, you know, the script was great. Basically it stuck to the formula that worked for the first two movies, and for that reason I think this works as well.

Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

Being on television is a little constraining. You spend six to eight months filming, and you get stuck in that gear. I feel like doing movies is a lot more my style.

Obviously, with 'The Room,' I wasn't on set thinking 'I'm going to be Daniel Day Lewis' playing Mark, but explaining how I even got involved in the movie shows how we all get stuck in situations as actors - and this one ended up being one of the craziest.

I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.

I was a student of law as my grandmother wanted me to be a lawyer. But my passion has always been movies.

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.