If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

I’m working on my life story. I’m not decided if it’s going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I am a fan of the ‚Rocky‘ films, and ‚Rocky 4‘ is my favourite. I also like ‚The Warriors.‘

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

I 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.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The skin of my character in ‚The Man Who Fell to Earth‘ was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That’s what happens in all of them.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

If you look at me in ‚Ride Along,‘ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

I rewrote the ending to ‚Farewell to Arms,‘ the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings – for my heroines, anyway. And later on, I began to read things like ‚Wuthering Heights,‘ and very, very unhappy endings would take place, so I changed my ideas completely and went in for the tragic, which I enjoyed.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

Speak low, if you speak love.

I am not a dreamer. I am a football romantic.

‚Unforgiven‘ is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, ‚This is great, but I’d like to do this when I’m older.‘ So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

That’s a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

‚Be Cool‘ was a defining movie for me.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I’m gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

You can’t remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn’t have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

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

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don’t like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn’t work. Some movie I don’t like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ and I don’t know if you remember ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys… Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house… and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let’s get that going.

After all those years in Asia, I don’t have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and – Boom! – people go.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

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

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Sometimes I’d like to play the bad guy and sometimes I’d like to die in a movie.

It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.

I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

‚Rocky‘ and ‚Rocky III‘ were the best.