Gene Tierney Quotes

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.

I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

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.

I don't work for production houses. I only work for good scripts and roles. If you follow my career graph, you will find that I have not given a single flop yet in my career. I am proud of it.

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

I know what a good movie is.

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

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

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

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.

If the film is good, it will work whether it has a star or no star.

If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'

When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.

I love a good harsh horror movie, when it's done well. But there are times when it feels cynical. You can tell when a filmmaker loves the genre, and you can tell when someone's just cashing in a paycheck. Then it becomes a dumbing down - a fetishisation of violence that I react very strongly against.

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 think it's really important to have good quality drama on TV.