Quotes About Movie

I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.

'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than anything else. So I can't say it was one of those things where your life changes. When the movie came out, I had to ask for the night off at the bar.

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

I'd say there's more of a difference between a play and movie to TV than there is between TV and movies. But there's something involved in the repetition of things that require something different from me in order to sign onto a script.

I love to do things that kind of mess with the movie formula that you can always find the right place to park; you've always got a phone signal. And I think audiences really respond to the limitations of real life when they intrude on drama.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

There was this one movie I really wanted to do, with Gregory Peck, 'Captain Newman, M.D.,' and Universal said, 'Well, if you want that, you're going to have to sign a seven-year contract.' And I'd already been through that. But I needed it, so I signed.

I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my creation. It's the seventh movie in a series, for goodness sake!

When I signed my contract to be in 'Grease 2,' my agent said, 'Well, she's going to have a number.' So I did! They wrote me a number where I was teaching Maxwell Caulfield how to be cool. It was called 'Cool Rider.' And it ain't in the movie.

When I signed my movie contract, I thought I could never even have an opinion on a movie. But now, I've realized I have a lot of opinions.

I think 'Mean Girls' was a kind of significant movie. It was a very successful comedy, and it was also before 'Bridesmaids,' and it really launched some of today's biggest women in comedy.

Usually, in many films, only the hero's character is of importance, and the others may not be as significant. But in 'Kaala,' there are at least six characters that will have a huge impact and will stay with you even after the movie.

Frankly, I hadn't expected my role in 'Avvai Shanmughi' to be so significant.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

I find that the projects I enjoy signing up to at the moment are with a director who's interested in the script - isn't completely sure what the movie is and isn't concerned about it. He's just interested in going on the journey and discovering it.

We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on the radio! It seemed like the movie was doomed. But, like these characters, there was a disregard for all the signs along the way.

'The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

I lived around the man who was the model for Buffalo Bill in the movie 'Silence of the Lambs.'

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

I think I should have made 'Dead Silence' as an independent movie.

In 'Silence,' there was no improvisation at all; really, you're dealing with a script and a 17th century way of speaking.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.