Moving-on Quotes

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.'

People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.