Making a film is so scary, and there's such a kind of void that you're working from initially. I mean, you can have all the ideas and be as prepared as possible, but you're also still bringing people together and saying, 'Trust me,' even when you don...
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
Alfred Pennyworth: I suppose they'll lock me up as well. As your accomplice... Bruce Wayne: Accomplice? I'm going to tell them the whole thing was your idea.
Jim: We'll have to leave the camp. Basie: That's the idea, Jim. First one side feeds you and the other side tries to get you killed, then it's turned around; it's all timing.
Dr Ray Stantz: I think we'd better split up. Dr. Egon Spengler: Good idea. Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah... we can do more damage that way.
Hermione Granger: We can't just stand here. Who's got an idea? Ron Weasley: Don't ask us. You're the brilliant one!
Dumbledore: Only a person who wanted to find the Stone - find it, but not use it - would be able to get it. That is one of my more brilliant ideas. And between you and me, that is saying something.
Timon: Hyenas. I hate hyenas. So what's the plan for getting past those guys? Adult Simba: Live bait. Timon: Good idea. [realizes what he means] Timon: HEY!
Yuri Orlov: In the most AIDS-infested region of the globe - where 1 in 4 is infected - Andy's idea of a joke was to put a young Iman and a young Naomi in my bed - and no condom within a hundred miles.
Sam: Sometimes I stick leaves on my hair. It helps cool your head down. Suzy: Hmm. That's a good idea. It might also help if you didn't wear a fur hat.
Chris: [referring to Calvera] If he rides in with no idea of the reception we can prepare for him, I promise you we'll all teach him something about the price of corn!
Carson Wells: Do you have any idea how crazy you are? Anton Chigurh: You mean the nature of this conversation? Carson Wells: I mean the nature of *you*.
[Levy suggested that writers could be eliminated and any old news story could provide a movie story idea] Bonnie Sherow: "Further Bond Losses Push Dow Down 7.15." I see Connery as Bond.
Dinah Lord: [describing her "dream" to Tracy] Do you know what I saw coming out of the woods? Tracy Lord: I haven't the faintest idea, a skunk?
Kitty Fane: [Talking to her mother about marrying Walter] Please, Mother. The idea that any women should marry any Tom, Dick or Harry regardless of her own feelings is simply prehistoric.
Teacher: The notion of secrecy is central to western literature. You may say, the whole idea of character is defined by people holding specific information which for various reasons, sometimes perverse, sometimes noble, they are determined not to dis...
Brandon: But why should I want to come back? Phillip Morgan: Yes, why? Brandon: For the pleasure of our company, or another drink? Rupert Cadell: That's a very good idea. May I have one for the road?
Miss Tanner: I had no idea you were so strong willed. I can see that once you make up your mind about something, nothing will change it for you. My compliments.
Dick Ritchie: Clarence, do you have any idea how much coke you have here? Clarence Worley: Nope. Tell me. Dick Ritchie: I don't know, but it's a fuckin' lot.
Major John Smith: You are going up to the castle tonight as, well, yes as a domestic. Mary Ellison: How? Naked? Major John Smith: Not a bad idea, but it's a bit obvious.
When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career...
