Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Reitman

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

Jason Reitman

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Jason Reitman

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

Jason Reitman

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

Jason Reitman

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.

Hildegard Knef

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one ...

Jack Nicholson

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Jack Nicholson

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

Jack Nicholson

You can't handle the truth!

Jack Nicholson

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Ingrid Bergman

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

Ingrid Bergman

In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.

Gwyneth Paltrow

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

Harmony Korine

I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.

Chris Eigeman

I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.

Hugh Dillon

I'm working consistently, and they're using my music in the movies,

Richard Gere

I'm totally shocked. I never win anything. And I didn't even want to do this movie!

Cherry Jones

I never go to the movies when I'm doing a play.

Jasper Fforde

I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

Jai Courtney

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a reputation of being an action guy. That's something I probably try to avoid, but I seem to keep making action movies.

Warren Beatty

I'm not sure two movie stars can run - not even here.

Rob Lowe

I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt.

Chris Evans

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

Charlie Korsmo

I'm happy with the movies I did, and the movies I didn't do.

Joel Silver

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

Tom Stoppard

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Jonathan Nolan

I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.

Madison Pettis

I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.

Mal Peet

I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

I don't really watch movies. I don't own a TV.

J. J. Abrams

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

Mike Nichols

It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.