Quotes About Movie

I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

We're seeing this disintegration of the family movie into these blockbuster things that kids should not be exposed to with explosions, carnage and violence.

I thought I was done making CIA movies after 'The Bourne Identity.' I really had used my father's work in Iran-Contra on 'The Bourne Identity.' You get one experience like that in your life where you have personal exposure to something, and you put it in a movie. That's it.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

I loved Suriya's performance in 'Vaaranam Aayiram'; his expressions in the movie, especially the train sequences, were really fresh.

I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

My dad says I was an extra in 'Die Hard.' I think it's true.

'Belko Experiment' was the harshest, most extreme movie I ever made. But I still think there's a very cohesive center to it that wasn't always in my early films. And that isn't necessarily a bad thing. But I think it's a commercial thing.

'Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme.

There are so many factors that go into having a successful movie.. too many that you can't control.

I root for 'Spawn' and every other comic-book movie. I hope all of them are successful because, any time one fails, it makes it that much harder to get one made.

The public should want to see a movie and it should entertain them. If it fails to do so, it is not good cinema.

Making a movie with Lindsay Lohan is not for the faint of heart.

'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.

If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.

I hadn't heard about the real-life case behind 'Bombshell' before, but the scandal sadly felt very familiar. It's great that the movie brought the specifics of this situation to light and reignited the conversation around the MeToo movement.

After 'Taramani,' life has changed - in a sense, as we grow, we evolve. My regret was post its release. After giving so much of my effort, blood, sweat, tears and time for a movie... I still didn't get any big offers. That really hurt.

If I see someone break down in tears, I don't necessarily feel empathy for them in those moments unless it's really warranted. I feel like a tear needs to be warranted in a movie; it needs to be earned.

I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance to what's happening in our world.

I once said the wrong movie name to Aaron Eckhart, and boy did he tease me about it for years.

I went to a Cal Tech party after the 'Facebook' movie came out, and there were kids in dark rooms coding because it was cool again. That movie made it cool to sit in a room at a party and write code.

I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it.