Quotes About Movie

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

I've always been fascinated by memory and I remember Jonah, when we first started dating, was working on something involving memory. It was early on in our relationship and I was like, damn it, I wanted to do a movie on memory. That was 'Memento.'

Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.

I'm so excited to appear in 'Wild Dog.' I believe it will be one of the most memorable movies in my life.

One of my earliest memories is seeing a 'Godzilla' movie - not just my earliest movie memory, but any kind of memory.

The first movie that ever scared me, I feel like it wasn't a scary movie. I feel like it was 'Dennis the Menace' or something.

When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that.

People do still mention 'Clueless' to me. I'm proud and happy that I was in it.

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

I only did four days on 'Just Mercy' at the same time I'm playing a cowboy in another movie.

Gone are the days when the merit of a song was measured by the success of the movie.

I was in a movie called 'Before & After' with Meryl Streep. I was edited out of the movie, but no one told me. I think I was 18 or 19 years old. I sat across from her and asked her every question about acting. I completely embarrassed myself.

I used to watch 'Death Becomes Her,' and I knew I wanted to become Meryl Streep.

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too.

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

'Looper' was so brilliant, and it took me forever to finally see it, but the way that movie ends and the message behind that is so selfless.

The other day I went to a movie with some friends, and they were like, 'Let's look it up on the Internet and see what people are saying,' and I was like, 'Man, that's messed up.'

Jack Nicholson and I have been friends ever since we met while doing 'The King of Marvin Gardens.'

'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.

'Halloween' is classic Michael Myers.

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

I doubt I will ever be in another Michael Bay movie.