Moving-on Quotes

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I make movies I want to see.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.