Quotes About Movie

Hell, the first thing you've got to do if you're going to make a picture is to get a story. The next thing is to get a good script, the next thing is to figure out who the hell is going to play in it, your characters, and then after that to make it.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables ' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

It was the sisters down at Good Fred's, where I would get my hair permed, who convinced me. "Ice, baby, you better do this. You better take this opportunity to be in a movie.

Ice, I've got a movie role for you." I'm like, "Yeah, okay, cool." I figured Mario was doing his own campaigning, you know, trying to impress these females. We should work together—that's a classic Hollywood bullshit line.

One thing I learned on New Jack City is that when you're making a movie, the trick is to make it feel real but not be

Chris Rock often says I was an uncredited codirector on New Jack City. It wasn't really codirecting, but when we were shooting, I sometimes wore the hat of technical advisor for those little street details.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.

You two are suggesting that something supernatural is going on here, but this isn't a horror movie. In real life there are always logical explanations.

Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

With an independent movie, it's like, 'Okay I know what I want, and I got to go for it.' I just got to get the A version of this. Occasionally we'll try a B version, but not often. We'll just get what's scripted and try to do that as best we can, so you sort of edit while you shoot an independent movie.

Some might not know that 'What's Happening' was the television version of 'Cooly High.' When I went on the audition, it was an audition for exactly that: the TV version of the movie.

A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny & Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super long version that had an intermission. I don't know how much they liked me that day.

The 'Beavis and Butt-head' movie was just a movie-length version of the TV show.

The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church.

I was briefly in the original version of 'Tombstone,' but I didn't make the final cut because that movie went through a couple of different permutations.

In the past, once a movie musical was made, it was believed that you were left with that version, good or bad, for posterity.

I have been an Avengers fan since the middle 1960s. I grew up with them, and I've imagined a hundred different versions of an Avengers movie. I think I even have a script I wrote back in eighth grade, 'Avengers vs. the Mole Man.' Truly dreadful, but a work of love.

I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

'The A-Team' compared to making 'Narc' was a breeze. There's a whole other skill set and whole other kind of bone structure that goes into making a movie like 'Narc' versus 'The A-Team.'

I think people really don't understand what a producer does versus what a director does. I mean, the producer is often the person that is on the movie the longest - it's their material that they are then bringing the director onto to bring it to the screen. Are we overlooked? Absolutely.

You have to think about space differently; you have to think about time differently when you're talking about a graphic novel versus a movie.

I feel like with 'Hubie,' it was just a matter of the difference between working on a movie versus a TV show. TV shows, it's like a long period of time and you're living there, and with this movie, it was kind of in and out.