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’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.

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

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

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

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 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.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

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

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

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.

‚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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

‚Be Cool‘ was a defining movie for me.

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

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

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.

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

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

Speak low, if you speak love.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

‚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.

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

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

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.

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.

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