Jason Statham Quotes

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.'

It's a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It's great fun flying out to L.A. for premieres and meeting all the actors and directors.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

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

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

I work with a lot of movie stars.

Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience.

Big feature films are another world.

It's tough to make a movie about movies... We're all too close to it. But 'The Bad and the Beautiful' was very good.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.

I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

If you love movies, then you love America.

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.