The best Quotes by Chris Columbus

Donald Trump said, "The only way you can use The Plaza on a soundstage is if I'm in the movie," so we agreed to put Donald Trump in the movie, and when we screened it for the first time the oddest thing happened: People cheered when he showed up on-screen. So I said to my editor, "Leave him in the movie. It's a moment for the audience." But he did bully his way into the movie.

about Donald Trump appearing in Home Alone 2

Donald Trump

Recommending Pierce Brosnan to play James Bond to MGM was my little contribution to the James Bond saga.

James Bond

Nobody does anything for free in Hollywood. They have to be paid for everything.

Hollywood

It was the most magical time of my life. It represented to me everything that was exciting about life.

about reading Marvel comics as a child

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are two of my cinematic heroes.

Steven Spielberg George Lucas

I was a horrific actor.

Well to be honest, I've written on most of the movies I've done. With the exception of Potter.

Quotes about Harry Potter

I was always adamant that Hogwarts should feel like a world that shouldn't exist in reality.

Return to Hogwarts

I was up on 140th Street in Harlem, in 1992. It was 3 in the morning, and I was walking back to get a cup of coffee. These two young kids came up to me and said to me, "What movie is this?" I said, "Home Alone 2," and they said, "What do you do?" And I said, "I'm the director." They said, "Oh, you're John Hughes!"

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"People are islands," she said. "They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years."

Ian Fleming in James Bond - Casino Royale

Relationships

You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face

Ian Fleming in James Bond - You Only Live Twice

Life Death

My name is Bond. James Bond.

James Bond in James Bond

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

Ian Fleming in James Bond - Goldfinger

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

Ian Fleming in James Bond - Casino Royale

Principles

James Bond: "I was wrong about you."
Christmas Jones: "Yeah, how so?"
James Bond: "I thought Christmas only comes once a year."

James Bond in James Bond - The World Is Not Enough

Felicca: "You are very suspicious, Mr. Bond."
James Bond: "Oh, I find I live much longer that way."

James Bond in James Bond - Der Spion, der mich liebte

Misstrust & Suspicion

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it!

Donald Trump - Juni 2025

Elon Musk

If you're not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for? If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?

Donald Trump - September 2016

The Epstein Files

While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is "mostly cows and rocks". Walz is obsessed with spreading California's dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.

Donald Trump - August 2024

Tim Walz

I am for electric cars. I have to be, because Elon endorsed me very strongly. So, I have no choice.

Donald Trump - August 2024

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.

Steven Spielberg

Judaism Israel Antisemitismus

Without John Williams, bikes don't really fly, nor do brooms in Quidditch matches, nor do men in red capes. There is no Force, dinosaurs do not walk the Earth, we do not wonder, we do not weep, we do not believe.

Steven Spielberg - August 2016

Superman Jurassic Park John Williams Quotes about Star Wars Quotes about Harry Potter E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Steven Spielberg

I don´t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I´m dreaming for living

Steven Spielberg (Moviemaker)

Dreaming

The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.

George Lucas

Greed Jedi

The Star Wars films are my kids. I loved them, I created them, I'm very intimately involved in them and I sold them to the white slavers.

George Lucas - about selling the Star Wars franchise to Disney

Quotes about Star Wars

You can't sell newspapers by saying nice things about something, you can only sell newspapers by creating controversies. Critics aren't creators, they're destroyers.

George Lucas

Criticism Newspapers

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

George Lucas

Movies

The legacy of these movies is that my children's generation will show them to their children. So, you could be watching them in 50 years' time, easy. I'll not be here sadly, but Hagrid will.

Robbie Coltrane in Return to Hogwarts

Quotes about Harry Potter

Emma obviously looked very beautiful in her dress, and me and Rupert looked like Austin Powers' mates.

Daniel Radcliffe in Return to Hogwarts

Emma Watson Austin Powers Rupert Grint

I didn't think Voldemort was that human. He was the essence of evil.

Ralph Fiennes in Return to Hogwarts

Voldemort / Tom Riddle

One of the weird things about Hollywood is we're all imposters; we're all just glammed up.

James McAvoy

Hollywood

I find Hollywood really toxic.

Rachel Weisz

Hollywood

When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, "After all this time?" And I will say: "Always."

Alan Rickman (Actor of Severus Snape)

Quotes about Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Stephen King - about Harry Potter

Joanne K. Rowling Quotes about Harry Potter

Well, it's fantastic when you consider the alternative.

Daniel Radcliffe - on how he feels about getting older

Age

Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people

Daniel Radcliffe - June 2020

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+

My sister has children who have been around 10, 11, 12 and I said, "Marth, I don't know about this Voldemort."
"What? You're being asked to play Voldemort? You've got to do it!"

Ralph Fiennes in Return to Hogwarts

Voldemort / Tom Riddle

I can't understand the vitriol directed at J.K. Rowling. I can understand the heat of an argument, but I find this age of accusation and the need to condemn irrational. I find the level of hatred that people express about views that differ from theirs, and the violence of language towards others, disturbing.

Ralph Fiennes - March 2021

Joanne K. Rowling Woke / Cancel Culture

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Emma Watson

Fear

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

Emma Watson

Self-Confidence

When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.

Rupert Grint

Ron Weasley

I wouldn't be the person I am without so many people here. It's a very overwhelming thing because I've watched you grow up and I've seen kind of every stage of your life. It's a strong bond that we'll always have. We're family.

Rupert Grint in Return to Hogwarts

JK Rowling? No one has done more to bring joy to so many generations.

Tom Felton - October 2022

Joanne K. Rowling

If your dad is a psychopath wielding a cobra cane about, you're probably not gonna be the friendliest geezer.

Tom Felton in Return to Hogwarts

Draco Malfoy Lucius Malfoy

My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but "Harry Potter", too?

Robbie Coltrane (as actor of Rubeus Hagrid)

Quotes about Harry Potter

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Robbie Coltrane

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