Top 80 Good Movie Quotes

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you’re going to have a good movie.

It’s hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It’s hard. I’ve done it, but it’s not easy.

A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.

There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, ‘You know, that was a good movie.’

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

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.

Humans love sex, we need sex, it’s how we connect, it reminds us we’re alive, it’s the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

‘Inside Out’ – that was a really good movie. That’s the first animated movie I saw since ‘The Lego Movie.’

We have to make movies where we do not think this is for the American market or this is for the Chinese market. We have to make a good movie that anyone would just want to sit down and watch because love, language, culture transcend everything.

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go ‘ooh, that’s Frankie Muniz’s new movie, it’s gonna be a good movie cause he’s in it.’

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

I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.

I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.

I can’t remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It’s frustrating because sometimes I dream that I’m watching a really good movie.

It’s very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation.

I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn’t refer to anything that’s real. If it’s consistent, if it’s entertaining, if it’s interesting, it justifies its being there.

If you’re a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don’t believe in the women who say, ‘It’s too hard, I’m getting shot down.’

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

A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.

There’s never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.

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

There’s nothing worse than making a good movie that doesn’t get seen.

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.

A good movie makes the audience feel like they’ve journeyed with the characters.

I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I’m always the ‘less is more’ guy when it comes to a scene. So I’ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn’t interest me. Maybe it’ll be a good movie, but the character doesn’t intrigue me.

I hate it when there’s a good movie, someone overhypes it and I’m disappointed that I don’t like it more.

My favorite movie is ‘Die Hard.’ It doesn’t have pinatas and mariachis. It’s just a good movie.

What happened on ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith,’ I was given a big budget and given too many choices, and I made a lot of mistakes and missteps early on until I squandered all that extra money. But then, once my back was up against the wall, I made what I consider a really good movie.

I don’t want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, ‘I have to support it because there’s black folks in there.’ I want them to go because it’s a good movie.

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director’s medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

I don’t think I could have made a good movie out of ‘Thor 2’ because I wasn’t the right director. And I don’t think I would have been in the running for ‘Wonder Woman’ as a result. And that’s one of the reasons why I’m glad I didn’t do it.

I didn’t do anything for two years but work on ‘Gone Baby Gone,’ and it was miserable and hard, but at the end? It is a good movie. I liked it very much. If it had been dismissed and deemed worthless, it would been definitely devastating. But that didn’t happen.

‘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.

The script is so key to making a good movie. But everything is against you when you’re making a movie: the logistics of putting a crew out where you need to go, whether the light is fading; if the weather’s not right, something’s wrong.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

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.

One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I’ll just bawl my eyes out.

It was fun playing with those jumps and the flashbacks in ‘Zombieland,’ but I don’t think you need it to make a good movie. It’s fun to just do a more straightforward one.

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.

I kind of stumbled on the material for ‘An Education’ and thought it would make a good movie, and one of the things that came out of that, for me, was that I learned that if you write a big part for a girl or a young woman, you get the opportunity to work with the best talent in the world.

If I start thinking, ‘Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?’ I’m not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

Films don’t hold the answers I’m looking for… Would you not be so much more interested in finding out that Bigfoot existed than in watching a really good movie?

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford’s apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

If you want to just make a good movie, if you don’t enjoy every step and become a master of each little moment, then you shouldn’t be doing it.

I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you’re watching a movie.

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

I want to do good work and not take on any movie. I want to do a good movie where I have the most important or very good role.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

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.

‘The Dark Knight’ is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

If it’s a good part in a good movie, I’ll do it.

Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

When people pay money to watch films, they also expect good movie in return.

I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it’s exciting to do.

I can’t stress it enough that we genuinely love ‘The Room.’ Like I said, I’ve seen it more than any other movie that’s ever been made, and it gets to a point where if a movie is that watchable, when can we just call it a good movie?