Movies Quotes

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.

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

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

Watching monster movies as a kid, liking monsters, building monster models. TV shows like 'The Munsters,' 'Addams Family' and 'Twilight Zone.' It intrigued me. The music came from that.

I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

I love movies; many an afternoon skipping school were spent in a funky, run-down Brooklyn movie theater.

We have home movies of Chris playing the piano with Will on his lap. One of the things that made my life so full was putting Will to bed and hearing Chris downstairs improvising.

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

'Masaan' was a small role, but people connected with it. I loved playing a man who does not have many complexities in life. I was inspired by my father for this role. You find such characters in novel or in stories. You don't find such parts in movies where characters are either good, bad, or grey.

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

The dramas that I worked on were successful, but not the movies. I still have many opportunities, and I will not be discouraged.