Top 30 Bad Movie Quotes

I probably made a few pictures I shouldn’t have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you’re going to make a bad movie, you’re going to make a bad movie.

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

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

I laugh a lot in horror films. If I’m scared in a horror film, I try to think about what’s scaring me… particularly, if it’s a bad movie, but something they’re doing still works. It’s the same way I look at comedy. I’ve always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.

‘The Dark Knight,’ ‘The Rocketeer’ and definitely the first ‘Superman’ movie by Richard Donner are the best. I tend to be softer in my judgment about what’s a bad movie – I don’t think anyone intends to make a bad movie, and sometimes it just doesn’t click for some reason.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it’s just to see what you learn for the next one.

No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There’s almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any given project. You just have to give it everything you got, and sometimes it works out, and a lot of the times it doesn’t.

I firmly believe that you can’t get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

‘High Stakes’ was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.

You know you’re in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

It’s possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can’t make a good movie from a bad script.

Tobias Wolff is a hell of a writer, but you knew that already. His first memoir, ‘This Boy’s Life,’ was a Huck Finn story set in the Eisenhower era – a story so rich and wounding that not even Hollywood could make a bad movie out of it.

If you go to a bad movie, it’s two hours. If you’re in a bad movie, it’s two years.

I sometimes think it’s better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they’re not supposed to.

‘Chronicle 2’ has become this question of, ‘How do we all make a movie that we all respect?’ And that’s true to what ‘Chronicle’ is. There’s no one at the studio who wants to make a bad movie. They all want to make a good movie just as much as I do.

I’d rather shut myself in a room for six months than act in a bad movie.

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.

When it’s a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that’s what happens.

Money is… I’m very conscious of it because I have it. It’s powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you’re addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you’ve got no choice but to make a bad movie.

I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.

Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.

I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you’ve soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I’d say, look, this is the good thing, and you can’t compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.

Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don’t work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.

I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don’t even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

I’d rather be playing bridge than making a bad movie.

I think my initial view of it is that ‘The Room’ has succeeded in being the best bad movie because it’s the most earnest. I feel like it’s a film that comes from the heart, and somebody’s really trying to send a message about their life and their view on the human experience.

I try not to repeat myself too often, but it’s a gamble. ‘Fred Claus’ had three Oscar winners in it. No business – it was a bad movie.

I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, ‘The cinematography was beautiful,’ it’s a bad movie.