Eugene Levy Quotes on Movies (11 Quotes)

is a look at what happens on a movie set when the word Oscar gets bandied about.

The success of that movie, that certainly took me by surprise, ... I thought it was a little movie with a cast of unknowns, and I loved the part.

Pushing The Man in the wake of Katrina is one of the more difficult things I've had to do, ... We've had to go out and we have to talk about this thing. We have to try and be positive about the movie ... But, at the same time, it seems like the most bizarre thing in the world to do.

We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out.

You get a good creative release doing these movies with Chris, having the kind of experience of doing a movie with absolutely no interference, ... However it comes out, it's how you want it to come out. But by the same token, those aren't the movies that are necessarily paying the bills.

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

He called me one day in Toronto. My wife and I had moved back from Los Angeles after the kids were born they have a son and a daughter, and I knew who he was and was a big fan of his work, going back to his National Lampoon days. And he said 'I'm doing a movie. Do you want to write it with me' And so I went down to his place in Idaho and from day one, it was amazing how we clicked. These films are great ensemble pieces with people who are so adept at doing this kind of work.

I like that there is no jeopardy when I work on a film with Chris, ... Castle Rock (Entertainment) just gives us around 8 million and we are left alone with no interference. I like the control of getting to do what is close to your sensibility.

The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.

tons of movies are shot in Toronto, but Toronto is never Toronto.

Listen, I'm not making a 90-degree turn here. For me, running is action. That's difficult enough. And in this movie, I was running, I was falling, I was jumping on cars, I was crawling across a floor padded up to the hilt. I got banged up a little.