Quotes About Movie

Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.

The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie you don't want to watch it 15 times.

The more complicated the movie, the more complex the budget, the more lonely it gets. There's a point where ... who do you go to, other than prayer and friends?

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

When I saw the script [of The Man], I saw the character and knew I could do the character. It's a relationship movie, which is also what I love to do. That's what attracts me to projects.

For every person who died in the westward migration prior to the Civil War from Native Americans attacking, the stuff of American legends, thousands, maybe tens of thousands died from water holes polluted by cholera and typhoid . . . but that doesn't make for a good movie.

I did, however, watch the movie I had made in the universal language of Esperanto, Incubus. I'd made it just before we started filming Star Trek, and by the time it was released, I had already forgotten how to speak the language, so like the few people who actually saw this film, I didn't understand it either.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Be very suspicious if somebody says they want to make a movie of your life story.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.

Wherever the truth lies, in order to eliminate flicker, the rotating shutter within the projector has to allow each image to be flashed upon the screen twice. Thus, whenever we watch a movie, we spend half the time gazing at an optical illusion and the other half sitting in the dark in front of a blank screen.

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

I have finally reverted the publishing rights for my Cocoon Trilogy back to me and, for the first time, e-published the final book - Butterfly: Tomorrow's Children. Cocoon, the movie and the book, was only the beginning.

Superheroes are just Jesus Christ with a penchant for extreme violence (i.e., Jesus Christ perfected by the Second Amendment!). To enjoy a superhero movie, you already need to be ninety percent Christian in your basic worldview.

A great movie hero is JOKER. Man, we fucking hate that Batman motherfucker. Anyone who wants to take him down is obviously one of the good guys! So, a sleazy billionaire playboy – a member of the super-rich elite – is supposed to be the hero of the people. Get to fuck!

Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.

I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a man in a movie by grabbing his head and twisting it until the neck broke. Was that difficult? Could a man do it without a lot of practice?

I am not the star of a zombie movie. I am the guy in the background who gets eaten in the first montage.

Now, are you familiar with the Lord of the Rings?" Molech hesitated again, realizing he was playing someone else's game, but with no idea what else to do. He said, "Yeah, old horror movie about a ghost girl who crawls out of a television?" "No, this is the one with wizards and elves. Ends with the midgets fighting in a volcano? It

I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.

A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.

Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.

Exactly. I'm almost done. Last pages." "I shouldn't interrupt, then." "Hey! You know rule number one. You must be a reader." "I thought rule number one is 'Don't tell the ending.' " "Wait. Rule number one: Hate the movie version." "Probably, all our rules are rule number one. We can get a little hard-core." "Always judge a person by their shelves. To fold or not to fold the pages.