Good Movie Quotes

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

One thing we haven't mentioned is something everyone should understand very clearly. Look at the budget that was invested in 'Avatar': who in China has that kind of money to spend on making a movie? So we as Chinese filmmakers should work together to make Chinese movies that can compete as best we can for Chinese audiences, not make lousy movies, but make the best we can for that audience. Concentrate the money, the talent we have on making good movies [for China].

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

All my good movies, nobody sees.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

You don't have to know how to make a movie. If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a 'Twilight' movie.

A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous.

In my mind, there isn't as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

When I got the job I thought about her a lot. Not only was I getting a great job in a really good movie, but it was with Lindsay Lohan. She's so famous and I don't have any of that, I have never experienced that kind of intense scrutiny that she's under, so of course I wondered what it would be like acting opposite her. I can tell you that it's like being with The Beatles. You cannot fathom the kind of attention she gets. It's mind boogling.

Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.

The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?

The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, so don't let it concern you that much. An awful lot of good movies have done badly and an awful lot of bad movies have done very well. There are no real rhymes or reasons for it. Sometimes the stars don't always align right. But if you've done the best you can, you feel pretty good about it.

I'm not a method guy. I can't be bothered to have a method. I just want to be a part of a good movie and I can't stand to be surrounded by morons.

Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

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

Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

Well, yeah! Now they're considered golden oldies, which is awesome. I was watching Little Women recently, and I didn't want to get up for fear of missing something. And Heathers is like my own Rocky Horror Picture Show; I recite the lines when it's on. It may seem odd, but I think it's because they're really good movies.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not just lost in another city. Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again.

A good movie humanizes people.

I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.

There's nothing more disheartening than seeing a movie and going oh, that doesn't work, or it didn't inspire us. Versus seeing a movie that is 'this is so awesome!'. Oftentimes, a really good movie just inspired you to go and make movies!

I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.