Kevin Costner Quotes on Movies (19 Quotes)

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

Anybody can start a movie off where their family is killed, and then for the next two hours there is this gigantic blood lust that you're supposed to accept because anybody can tie into the idea of revenge,

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

I mean if I spent that money and didn't have a movie, there should be some questions. The question is, can this movie return its investment I believe it can.

There's a model of bravery in terms of career and the kind of movies he's tried to do. And the fact that he's still doing it -- I mean, he's as good as anybody who's ever done this. And if you think it's real easy, look around. There's not many guys like him.

When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

Back then, a test screening of the film prompted audiences to beg not to kill the wolf, ... Well, I understand, but bad things have to happen. That's real. There's death in 'Bambi.' That's real.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

These older and wiser guys are digging, trying to get a wagon wheel out of the mud after a storm, and the two younger cowboys -- who are supposed to be helping -- are doing nothing -- just like boys will tend to do, ... It's things like that, that make a movie real.

They weren't sure they wanted to watch it because it was in black and white. I said, 'You watch this.' But in the end, my oldest, Ann, said it was a really good movie.