Quotes About Movie

Rumack Yes I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and bring them to life. So a movie career definitely affords me that.

'A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!'

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.

There's a bit more of a safe distance when you're making a narrative movie, a bit more perspective. Audiences can separate themselves from the harsh reality of the facts a little bit more and think: 'Okay, how do I consider this?'

I was persuaded to see 'The Muppets' by a friend, and I regretted it. A very boring hour and a half.

The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.

You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying is that I don't think you should know you're in a movie. I don't like it when actors are winking at the audience and saying, 'Right, isn't this funny? Are you with me?'

My first movie ever was 'Breaking Away.' I stumbled into an incredible part in a movie that was incredible to be a part of. Peter Yates, the director, became a lifelong friend. He sort of plucked me from obscurity and gave me a life.

In fact, I had the idea because of Peter Falk. I saw my dad watching a Peter Falk movie and something clicked in my head. I gotta go make a movie for Peter Falk and me.

When I met Peter Weir, we did a movie called 'Master and Commander' together, and that's when I really started to understand the power of acting, the power of directing, finding the emotion in performance.

Nobody can ever describe how much you explore a character on a Peter Berg movie until you're doing it.

It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.

I went through a phase where I watched 'Jurassic Park' every day for about 13 or 14 days after school when I was young.

The original 'About Last Night' was phenomenal.

I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.

'Mean Girls' was phenomenal, Rachel McAdams was on point the entire time and so fantastic.

It's always tough for me to make a movie, and then sit on an airplane and watch somebody watch it on their phone.

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

If your family was part of the movie business, then watching 'Moguls & Movie Stars' is like looking at the family photo album: hilarious to members of the family, numbingly boring to those outside the family circle.