51 Quotes by Robert Zemeckis

I’m addicted to documentaries. That’s all I watch on television.

The thing that’s interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It’s like a circus thing. It’s a guy on a wire.

I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that’s good is worthwhile.

Understand life’s mysteries – as mysteries to be lived.

You can’t legislate sobriety.

From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don’t pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money.

I’ve always said that movies are kind of like love affairs. Two people come together, and if they’re at the right place at the right time and it’s the right situation, it clicks. I’ve always felt that I’ve connected with screenplays. It’s the romantic in me.

In the next couple of years, part of every film’s process is going to be to adjust the images. And it’ll be to change the color of an actor’s tie or change the little smirky thing he’s doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.

As a filmmaker, you’re always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they’re villains.