Movie quotes

“Some of the big movies, you get checks for a long, long time.”
Leland Orser

“It's the thing they don't teach you in film school - what happens after you finish your movie.”
Leland Orser

“You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater.”
Charles Durning

“My worst work happens when I get obedient.”
Michael Wincott

“It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.”
Ray Liotta

“A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.”
Jason Flemyng

“Film is our literature.”
David Strathairn

“So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.”
David Strathairn

“Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.”
David Strathairn

“The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.”
Jeffrey Wright

“The camera looks into your soul.”
Joe Pantoliano

“I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in.”
Elias Koteas

“I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy... I wanna scare people.”
Richard Schiff

“I'm gonna wait until this is in color.”

Shirley Knight - Edie Danziger

“Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation.”
James Coburn

“When Brian De Palma would come out with a new movie, the whole first two weeks before the movie opened, I would count down the days. That week before Scarface opened, that was Scarface Week.”
Quentin Tarantino On Brian De Palma

“I think it's important that your first film be your worst film.”
Kevin Pollak

“Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.”
Jared Harris

“'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say.”
Willie Garson

“The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.”
Catherine Keener

“The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.”
Catherine Keener

“- Jack Grace: What kind of movies do you prefer, the ones with the sad endings or the happy ones?
- Claire Harrison: The sad ones definitely. I like movies that make me cry.”
Adrien Brody - Jack Grace
Charlotte Ayanna - Claire Harrison

“I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.”
Jack Black

“I wish the rock 'n' roll scene to be back in.”
Brendan Fraser

“'The Avengers' is exciting on the level 'The Matrix' or 'Indiana Jones' was when I was kid. I think it will be timeless.”
Clark Gregg