I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

The French have got taste.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

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.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

I 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.

I’ve choreographed all of my movies.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood’s most successful and innovative genre.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

I 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.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

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.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don’t have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don’t pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.