There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.
Clint EastwoodIt is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it’s like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I’m not fighting. I don’t have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
Jackie ChanI am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
Walt DisneyYou just don’t know when you get in the editing room what you will need as a link or a tool for a transition. If you’re in a room, and there’s a kettle boiling, get a shot of it. Don’t worry if people think you’re nuts.
Angelina JolieI think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.
Kevin HartI’m nobody, who are you?
Emily DickinsonEverybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
Clint EastwoodI always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
EminemBrad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.
Angelina JolieWhen Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity – everything was anonymous or pseudonymous – and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.
Mark ZuckerbergMy friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerAs we all know, sequels can be tricky.
Dwayne JohnsonEvery time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
Jackie ChanI’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.
Clint EastwoodI always play women I would date.
Angelina JolieFilm is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.
George LucasThere’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.
Will RogersI do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.
Adam SandlerI realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.
George LucasI think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.
Kevin HartJackie Chan is a myth.
Jackie ChanI wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.
Kurt CobainI loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.
George LucasI want to be an executive producer.
Abby Lee MillerSee, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.
Matthew McConaugheyWhen I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘
George LucasI was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.
George LucasThrough my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘
Adam SandlerOne day, I want to make a PG film.
Jackie ChanYes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.
Clint EastwoodI would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
Taylor SwiftI think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.
Angelina JolieThere’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
Bill GatesFilm is not an easy occupation. There’s a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.
George LucasWhen I’m making an American film, it’s more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, ‚What are you doing!? Tell me first!‘ There are so many restrictions.
Jackie ChanAlfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘
Clint EastwoodI don’t know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don’t want anybody to know my identity. I’m like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.
LeBron JamesMeryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
Denzel WashingtonI worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
Anthony HopkinsIt’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.
Denzel WashingtonI’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‚Well, put your hand over here.‘
Keanu ReevesThe challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.
Matthew McConaugheyI have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‚If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.‘
Clint EastwoodI like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
Matthew McConaugheyI’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘
George LucasI get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it’s the most complicated thing in the world.
Angelina JolieMovies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.
Clint EastwoodI’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.
Adam SandlerI want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.
Jackie ChanBut I do believe that there’s going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it’s just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.
Dwayne JohnsonThis film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint EastwoodMichelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.
Denzel WashingtonIt would be great to be 105 and still making films.
Clint EastwoodThere’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.
Angelina JolieI loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
Keanu ReevesLearning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
George LucasIndeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia WoolfI liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.
Clint EastwoodThere are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
Thomas SowellThe truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
Virginia Woolf