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.

The 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.

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

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

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

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

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn’t appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

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.

We’re making the music that the people are asking us for.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

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.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn’t affect stadium attendance at all. It’s the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

When 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.‘

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‚Glee.‘ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.

I 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.‘

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

One of my movies was called ‚True Lies.‘ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

My 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.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

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.

Just because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.

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

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.

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.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

I like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that’s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn’t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

When I make a film – I direct my own film, I write my own script – that’s what I want to hear from the audience. ‚Oh, thank you, Jackie!‘

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

My favorite movies of all times is ‚Doctor Zhivago,‘ and I love ‚Gone With the Wind.‘ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

Yes, 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.

I didn’t watch ‚The A-Team‘ movie. I’m an artist. You can’t re-paint a Rembrandt. You can’t duplicate that; I don’t care who you get.

When 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.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

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.

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