Good Movie famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm just looking to make good movies and looking to be as good as I can be in them and that's about it. But I feel much more comfortable doing a comedy, but the fact that I got to try a few dramas, I feel I've tested myself a little bit.
-- Adam Sandler -
A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.
-- Akira Kurosawa -
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.
-- Ali MacGraw -
I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.
-- Andrew Stanton -
I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.
-- Anthony Mackie -
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
-- Anthony Minghella -
'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.
-- Ben Affleck -
I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.
-- Charlize Theron -
I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.
-- Charlize Theron -
When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.
-- Chris Tucker -
We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.
-- Chris Wedge -
It's tough to make a good movie. I think the bigger the movies are, the worse they are. A lot of big movies make a lot of money and you kind of forget about what they are and they don't really make you think.
-- Christian Bale -
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
-- Christopher Hampton -
Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.
-- Claire Danes -
The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, so don't let it concern you that much. An awful lot of good movies have done badly and an awful lot of bad movies have done very well. There are no real rhymes or reasons for it. Sometimes the stars don't always align right. But if you've done the best you can, you feel pretty good about it.
-- Clint Eastwood -
I consider myself more of a film fan than a filmmaker, or I guess it's kind of a balance, fortunately. But I really want to see good movies as much as I want to make good movies and I want to see bizarre movies as much as I want to make bizarre movies.
-- David Gordon Green -
I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.
-- Dylan McDermott -
It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.
-- Edward Furlong -
It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.
-- Emily Blunt -
I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.
-- Emily VanCamp -
Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.
-- Ernst Lubitsch -
I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.
-- Ewan McGregor -
Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences
-- Frances McDormand -
Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
-- Garret Dillahunt -
You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
-- Gary Cole -
When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.
-- Geraldine Chaplin -
Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.
-- Gordon Willis -
A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.
-- Howard Hawks -
It's rare that the sequel to a good movie lives up to expectations. Such is the case with Die Hard 2 , the somewhat-muddled but still entertaining return of Bruce Willis' John McClane. Fortunately, the original Die Hard was good enough that there's room for the second installment to be enjoyable while still not matching the pace or possessing the flair of its predecessor.
-- James Berardinelli -
All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.
-- Javier Bardem -
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
-- Jean-Luc Godard -
A script is just a script. A good script can be a bad movie, so easily. It's the process that makes it good. You need a good script, don't get me wrong, but you need all those other things to make a good movie. You really do.
-- Joel Surnow -
A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.
-- Joel Surnow -
The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control is the character that I'm playing. So I try to look for characters that are interesting and engaging and different than what I've done before and hopefully it becomes a good movie.
-- John C. Reilly -
You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.
-- John Gielgud -
Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.
-- John Sayles -
The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.
-- Jose Ferrer -
A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.
-- Kathryn Erskine -
If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'
-- Katie Aselton -
Just making a good movie is hard to do.
-- Keenen Ivory Wayans -
What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.
-- LL Cool J -
I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.
-- Luke Bryan -
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly...
-- Matthew Quick -
You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.
-- Matthew Vaughn -
Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respect?' And that's true to what 'Chronicle' is. There's no one at the studio who wants to make a bad movie. They all want to make a good movie just as much as I do.
-- Max Landis -
Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.
-- Michael B. Jordan -
A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
-- Michael Douglas -
Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.
-- Michael Kors -
I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.
-- Michael Moore -
If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
-- Monica Bellucci -
I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.
-- Morgan Spurlock -
I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.
-- Nicolas Cage -
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
-- Paul Thomas Anderson -
A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.
-- Pauline Kael -
A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.
-- Ricky Schroder -
I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.
-- Ridley Scott -
I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.
-- Robert Osborne -
I'm a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn't matter - I just like his movies.
-- Sean Penn -
Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.
-- Sean Penn -
I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.
-- Sean William Scott -
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
-- Seth Grahame-Smith -
To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.
-- Seth Rogen -
The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?
-- Stephen Rea -
If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
-- Taylor Lautner -
My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.
-- Terry Gilliam -
The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.
-- Topher Grace -
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
-- Uta Hagen -
Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
-- Warren Christopher -
Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.
-- Willem Dafoe -
I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.
-- Woody Harrelson -
I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."
-- Catherine Hardwicke -
I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.
-- Colin Cunningham -
I don't think I've made good movies. I've just made some movies more disgusting than others.
-- Jesus Franco -
I tried to take advantage of the fact that I was not used to making a movie. Movies are still so new to me so I had to use my fascination, and the fact that I'm almost a teenage filmmaker, to my advantage. And that's why I don't pretend to have made a good movie... but one that people are able to feel the love I have for this industry.
-- Joann Sfar -
There's nothing more disheartening than seeing a movie and going oh, that doesn't work, or it didn't inspire us. Versus seeing a movie that is 'this is so awesome!'. Oftentimes, a really good movie just inspired you to go and make movies!
-- Kevin Feige -
I just wanted to make a properly good movie, and not beg for the love of the fans.
-- Louis Leterrier -
As long as I stay true to what I believe is a good movie and what is my vision, that's all I can do.
-- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. -
There's pressure to deliver as good of a movie with a little bit more of a budget, and that to me ... to me the hardest thing always is, I just want to deliver a good movie no matter what the budget is and no matter where we shoot it or any of those things.
-- Neal H. Moritz -
I love hanging out with friends and family, going to the beach or just being a couch potato and binge watching TV shows or watching a good movie.
-- Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer -
The good movies that people want to keep are probably creating their value more than anything else.
-- Bill Mechanic -
It's all kind of just all of us coming together and all lending a hand on what we think will make it a good movie.
-- Boti Bliss -
Whatever I do, I like making good movies because I like to watch good movies. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.
-- Molly Quinn -
It didn't happen every time for every movie. Ruthless People was a good movie, but we didn't get a good release or marketing. They completely blew the opening.
-- David Zucker -
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
-- Roger Ebert -
The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.
-- Frank Spotnitz -
Last thing you want to do with a good movie is hold the audience hostage. As an entertainer myself, I just know it's better when you leave 'em wanting more than to stick around too long.
-- Simon Kinberg -
I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.
-- Howard Shore -
I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.
-- Vilmos Zsigmond -
You can do a good movie, or you can do a good movie that can help people to feel the idea of what it is like to live. It can be good in an artificial way; it can be also a good movie for your own existence. You don't know that when you do a movie. You don't know if you succeeded, which is the most difficult thing.
-- Louis Garrel
