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" Quotes and Sayings About a movie

You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it’s a movie that you would want to see.

Resist Love Work Money
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A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

Movies Visually Powerful Crowd
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Describe Movie Second Image
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.

Business Destiny Idea Status
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If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

Around Inherent Cynicism Cry
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I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

Movie Marine Cop Absolutely
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I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

Mvie Comic Book Thinking
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I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

Blend Difficult Dinner Go
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When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.

Being Connection Elvis Ford
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Because History Like Loved
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

Anything Could Directed Everything
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Die Enough Everything God
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Actor Bunch Despise Entails
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I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Average Feelings Guy Maker
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The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it's an embarrassment of riches that I've got both.

Both Career Embarrassment Family
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Sometimes I'll be watching a movie then think to myself that I could do a better job.

Better Better Job Could Job
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My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

Acting Acting Class Basket Bought
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I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Directed Editing Going Movie
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I am capable of holding the quote-unquote 'title' of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Capable Holding Quote Unquote
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Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

Make Money Movie Sometimes
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I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.

About Becomes Chris Dead
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Away Because Being Bullet
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

Air Am Call Dates
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I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

Any Become Bit Broadway
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.

About Days Doing Early
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

Bad Bad Guy Die Guy
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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Conversation Cry Easily Movie
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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Movie Long Script Been
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I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

About Anything Anywhere Funny
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

Call City Come Cop
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
Always Been Given Movie
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
Go Make Movie Sell
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Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Being Confused Else Everyone
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

Central Did Enough Grew
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I don't know where my parents got my name. I'm sure they saw it in a movie, maybe.

Got Know Maybe Movie
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If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.
Great GreatOpportunity Involved Itself
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

Crap Cut Got Movie
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I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

Drama Form Make Minutes
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There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

Times Standing Movie Hit
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Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

Everything Personal Made Movie
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You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

Ought Love Want Especially
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Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

Animals Because Child Could
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Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

Big Big Story Concept Creating
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When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered

Great Life Movie Egotisticala
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I want to act till I die. It will be great if they could use my funeral in the scene of a movie.

Act Great Funeral Scene
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Writing screenplays makes me a better musician because it clears my head. After writing a movie, I go running back to music as fast as I can.

After Back Because Better
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Why are we scared of a '50s weepie? Why are we scared of a movie that pulls you in and punches you in the stomach?

Movie Punches Scared Stomach
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The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

Adventure Being Exciting ILove
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

Around Bizarre Dry Intimate
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