Quotes About Movie

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

I'm one of the most successful adult movie directors in the business.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

'The Room' came out in 2003, really to crickets. Nobody showed up to see it. It made $1800 at the box office. Everyone assumed it was going to disappear.

No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody.

The experience of 'Braveheart' was great, but I was a little disappointed that we weren't telling the rest of the story.

I really like 'Disaster Artist.'

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.

It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.

Never, never did I think I would be in a Disney movie.

I don't want to leave New York and leave my family. I don't like the distance. I just did a movie in California and it's kind of excruciating to be away from them so I think there is that sense.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie.

You've got the movie, distribution, and marketing. All are equally important, so educate yourself on how to do the best you can at each of them.

I loved 'District 9.'

I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

I have people tell me all the time, 'I was expecting you to be mean.' Why is that? Because you saw me in a movie? That's acting.

It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.

I think everyone loves 'The Departed.' That was a movie that had a lot of problems structurally. And we had to battle with it. Fight. Experiment. Try different things. And I think finally we hit it.

'Bronson' was like, 'I'll do a movie about my own life.' And it became like an experiment.

I don't think 'Road' is an experimental film.