Quotes About Movie

I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right?

I do think 'The Notebook' is a darn good movie.

Has anybody seen 'The Notebook' and not cried? I don't know, I don't know if that's the case. It sort of hangs around for a while.

I'm very much an action movie type of person. My wife is more of a 'Notebook' type of girl.

When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies.

I love 'The Notebook' and I cry when I watch that.

I was one of the ones in my generation who actually did connect with 'The Wiz,' even though it was not on Broadway or the movie wasn't big anymore by the time I was of age to notice. But I was into it in middle school.

The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't necessarily understand that you're not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

I have to credit high school for allowing us to mess around with movie stuff at a time when it was a novelty. Experimenting with that and having a very good group of friends to work with made it a very easy decision that this seemed like something I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.

Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated, but I'm impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I started making movies, I thought it was easy, and then when I got into it, I was like, 'This is not easy at all.'

I have to understand how we are going to market the movie. We view marketing as an extension of content creation... Every time a consumer sees our movie, in whatever form, our obligation is to entertain the audience.

A lot of times, they can't hire actors just because there's this obligation that the audiences don't know who they are, and it's about making money. For me, the project that felt like all of it was 'Rachel Getting Married' because I had such a good time on that movie. Jonathan Demme, to me, is one of the most actor-friendly directors.

My obligation is to the movie audiences.

I was obsessed with 'Ghostbusters.'

When the movie 'Selena' came out, I got really obsessed with her, and my mom and I went and saw it.

When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.

I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was a big disappointment that it didn't happen.