Matthew Lillard Quotes

The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.

'The Dark Knight,' 'The Rocketeer' and definitely the first 'Superman' movie by Richard Donner are the best. I tend to be softer in my judgment about what's a bad movie - I don't think anyone intends to make a bad movie, and sometimes it just doesn't click for some reason.

What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.

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.

Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'

I try not to repeat myself too often, but it's a gamble. 'Fred Claus' had three Oscar winners in it. No business - it was a bad movie.

The problem with movies is that you see from the first day - you're on a train, and if the movie is not going in the right direction you know it right away. Sometimes, you can't get off the train, and the whole experience is painful.

I'm shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.

Most movies aren't any good.

I've never seen a good tennis movie. They all were terrible.

I did a string of about six or seven Elvis movies, all in a row. He made all of those movies in two years' time. All of them bad. Don't quote me.

I think the best bad movies are not really genre movies like, let's say, 'Troll 2,' because those are easy to mess up.

I don't judge director on the basis of their last film.

Although he appeared in some awful movies, Elvis could also be pretty damn good as an actor.

Most movies were always terrible.

No matter what kind of film one makes, it boils down to whether it's good or not.

If a star film does not have a good story, it will not run. This will make stars choose good scripts consciously.

I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the entire history of filmmaking, every year there have been about two really wonderful movies, about 10 others that are pretty good, and a whole pile of garbage.

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, they make bad movie after bad movie.

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.