I 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 SwiftIn Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.
Dwayne JohnsonA special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
George LucasI’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘
George LucasMichelle 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 WashingtonHere’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.
Kevin HartThere’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 EastwoodI always play women I would date.
Angelina JolieI 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 Hart‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.
Kevin HartWhen we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
Keanu ReevesI 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 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 EastwoodI like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
Frank OceanI’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 EastwoodEverybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.
Clint EastwoodI have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.
Keanu ReevesI’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.
Adam SandlerMy 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 SchwarzeneggerSee, ‚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 McConaugheyI want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.
Jackie ChanI 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 LucasIf my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.
Woody AllenWhen you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.
Kevin HartI will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.
Clint EastwoodI 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 HartBrad 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 JolieI’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
Jackie ChanI 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 ReevesThis film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint EastwoodMeryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
Denzel WashingtonI 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 want to be an executive producer.
Abby Lee MillerIt’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 WashingtonLater on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.
Elvis PresleyThe next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
Elvis PresleyBeing a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
Jackie ChanI 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.
Kevin HartFilm 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 LucasJackie Chan is a myth.
Jackie ChanThere’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.
Will RogersMovies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.
Clint EastwoodI 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 JolieIn every movie I do have a dialogue.
Jackie ChanAs we all know, sequels can be tricky.
Dwayne JohnsonWhen you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.
Angelina JolieI love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.
Matthew McConaugheyI make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
Jackie ChanI seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
Angelina JolieHollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
Kevin HartFilm is not an easy occupation. There’s a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.
George LucasI don’t want people saying, ‚Should we get a female director?‘ I want to hear, ‚Should we get a great director for this movie?‘
Angelina JolieI am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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