Quotes About Movie

I was a last-minute casting in 'Drishyam.'

People look upon a person in TV as someone they can see for nothing. This is carried over in casting pictures. They're afraid; they will not cast a TV lead to be a lead in a movie.

I think always whenever we're casting a movie, it's about sitting down with somebody and feeling in them some kind of the element of who our character is.

The movie 'Black Cat,' from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

There's some central relationship in every movie, and that's what stories are.

I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible.

We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.

I think that learning Burmese has to have been one of the most challenging things that I have had to do for a movie.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.

When I was making the 'Kid' my salary was $75 a week. Chaplin gave me a $5,000 bonus at the end of the picture.

Bill Hader, nobody can play Richie like this guy, I think. It was great because, for some reason, 'Chapter Two' was a movie that everyone wanted to be in.

I literally said it was my dream in life to direct a Charlie Kaufman movie.

'Anchorman' was never supposed to be a popular, like, hit movie. That movie was a cheap movie - it felt like we were working on a weird independent comedy in a way.

Usually, when I read something, I'm looking for the story first. And then, when I re-read it, I check every part of it to see whether every scene is necessary. You imagine yourself watching the movie, to see whether or not you're losing the through-line of the story.

I feel like the job in editing is to let the movie tell you what it is. So again, it's like sculpture. You just start taking away, you add a nose here, you cut off, like, the side of the cheek over here in the crease, and you have a face. But it really reveals to you what it means to be over time, and if you have enough time.

I wish that I had been in 'School of Rock' because, when I was younger, that movie was the movie. It really made me want to be an actor - that's so cheesy. But I remember seeing it when I was little and loving it so much, being like, 'I wish that I was in that.'

To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.

It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.

I meet people on the street who literally chose their careers because they saw 'Back to the Future' and decided they wanted to be scientists or astronomers or engineers.

And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater.

'A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie.

I had seen an English movie musical production of 'Cinderella,' 'The Slipper and the Rose' with Richard Chamberlain, and liked it so much I saw it eight or 10 times.