Elle Fanning Quotes

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.

I love being part of these giant, epic movies. I take great pride in being part of them.

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

Yes, and it's my third movie with Richard. American Gigolo was my first.

When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.

Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.

I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.

I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne - Pedro Almodovar wouldn't be too shabby. There are so many good directors, but those are some of my favorites.

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

Filming 'Bad Santa' was really where I learned everything that I knew at that point about movies. That was really the first big thing that I had done.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

When I heard I'd be working with Scorsese, I signed up immediately.

People are always telling me how much they loved 'Empire Records.' We had so much fun making that movie. I was so young - 16 or 17. I still had a tutor!

I spent a chunk of time in New Orleans doing the movie 'Free State Of Jones,' getting to work with Matthew McConaughey, and also did 'Concussion,' where I got to work with Will Smith.

My story sort of sounds ridiculous because the first movie I produced was 'E.T.'

I've been lucky to be a part of many blockbuster movies... in which it's hard to get to that level of being memorable, but I still have fond memories of 'Independence Day,' to be sure. There are also many small ones I've had that give me many fond memories.

I was lucky enough to work a little bit with Steven Spielberg.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

My brothers and I came to L.A. as break-dancers when I was about 10, and by the time I was 15, I was working on this really big movie, with Steven Spielberg and Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams.

I have grown up watching films like 'Striptease' and 'Ghost,' and here I was in the same frame as the gorgeous Demi Moore.

I have made all my monies through cinema.

I did a movie with Woody Allen [“Hollywood Ending” in 2002]. I only had a few days with Treat on that film. I immediately liked Treat. Treat and I had a sense of humor about the whole thing.