My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.
A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.
I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.
There's pressure to deliver as good of a movie with a little bit more of a budget, and that to me. . . to me the hardest thing always is, I just want to deliver a good movie no matter what the budget is and no matter where we shoot it or any of those things.
The better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
Any good movie is filled with secrets.
There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.
I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.
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 just wanted to make a properly good movie, and not beg for the love of the fans.
Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.
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.
Honestly, if you're just going to be the love interest then at least let it be a really good movie. Not every role is going to be Hamlet, I know that.
Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene. And music excites me because it puts me in a mind state, whatever that may be.
I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.
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.