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I definitely have found a balance. I’ve had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.
Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don’t.
I was a big fan of martial arts movies – Bruce Lee in particular, as cringeworthy as it is. Jean-Claude van Damme was a big inspiration as well – it’s a little embarrassing.
Everyone is using the Internet for almost everything – trailers, ads, movies, and short films. This is the only thing that will reach everybody in the world.
When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.
‘Wayne‘s World’ is one of the best movies of all time.
I didn’t like some of the movies that were coming into me.
I’m obsessed with the power of music and image together. There’s also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous – there’s a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don’t really see in movies in the same way.
The best movies now are called ‘thrillers.’ Because if you use the word ‘horror,’ people’s associations are straight-to-video crap.
With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
If making movies was easier, there’d be a lot more good movies. So you kind of learn that if it’s just a good script, or if it’s just a good producer, that’s not always enough. You need an entire team of creative people coming together.
I’m on the playstation, or else I go out and play football. I enjoy movies and sitcoms. I love reading motivational books too.
I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
I don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
Many times I’ll improvise it, which isn’t done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised.
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
I want my music in movies.
There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
I never enjoyed working in a film.
Commercials led to TV, and TV led to movies here and there.
The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I’ve always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I’ve cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.
I’m not necessarily a fan of horror genre of movies or books.
There were so few examples of Asian or Asian-American lead characters on American TV or even in the movies. And the ones that have existed for so long were either stereotypical or offensive in some way, or just not reflective of the lives of people in the community.
Our ethos for ‘Now You See Me 2’ was that everything in the movie at least had the potential to be done in real life, and I’d say over 90% of it was actually done in-camera with no CGI. Of course, movies like this are always going to be bound by the rules of Hollywood, being there‘s going to be enhancements of CGI.
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.
Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as ‘Godspell’ – I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did ‘Elm Street‘ – I’d probably be on a psychiatrist‘s couch saying: ‘Freddy ruined me.’ But I’d already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre.
When I was in a couple of movies in the ’80s, I was winging it.
When you’re doing movies, you’re traveling all over the world and you really can’t be home.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington‘ is one of the greatest films of all time.
I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
In Chennai, we have the beach for entertainment, but in places like Trichy, Salem, and Coimbatore, movies are the only entertainment.
It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.
Everybody’s a filmmaker today.
The Asian culture has to be a part of what we see on TV and in movies.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
We make movies and we all try our best and sometimes we connect with the audience, sometimes we don’t.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
I’m a romantic. I like romantic movies.
Christopher Nolan’s ‘Batman Begins‘ set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker’s perspective.
The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.
The first Disney movie I saw I think was ‘Snow White.’ I loved all the Disney princess movies.
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said ‘the ugly girl’.
My favorite movies of all times is ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ and I love ‘Gone With the Wind.’ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
Offers have to be really interesting for me to take them up either in movies or TV.
I’ve been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it’s the greatest thing in the world – even when it’s passionately against the title – because it’s going to start a conversation.
I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don’t think that actors get to do much in them. They’re usually just reacting.
People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don’t think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.
I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.
These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It’s about the one dimension; it’s about the lack of any texture.
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody’s talking about these 100-hour movies called ‘Breaking Bad‘. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is ‘Breaking Bad.’
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist‘s early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
There’s nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that’s happening outside.
I’m definitely a romantic comedy dude because I’m a big romantic at heart. I’m a softy, so it’s always nice to watch movies that make you think that love at first sight is actually possible.
Cricket is my passion; it is my first love. So I will not act in my movies, as they will just be a side business for me.
I’ll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that’s going to make me smart and then go to sleep.
The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don’t give the director enough control.
I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it’s all said and done, it’s all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that’s one of hope.
I think being Shaquille O’Neal would be the most amazing thing. There’s nothing I would have done differently in his life. Everything he’s done I think is pretty spot on, even, like, the bad rap videos, the shoes, the movies, everything.
I love film. I am very blessed to be making movies.
I’ve had lots of parts in movies that I’ve never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I’m not calling my friends and saying, ‘I couldn’t be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.’
My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.
Movies are magic no matter where they’re made.
I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they’d like to see spectacles.
I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I’m not that interested in entertainment.
The great thing for me about ‘The Resurrection of Gavin Stone‘ is it’s a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn’t call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it’s the way things happen to you in life that’s unreal.
I like all of John Carpenter‘s movies. ‘The Thing’ is my favorite.
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.
I’ve always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the ’40s because there was no cynicism.
Those movies sure got me into a rut.
I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see – you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.
I grew up in the era of Keira Knightley, so I’ve seen every one of her movies a few times.
Whenever I have free time, I usually just sleep, play games, watch movies, see my friends, have a drink. Basically, I do whatever other people do in everyday life.
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
My mom always wanted me to do movies where I played, whether I had flaws or not, guys that had a good heart.
When I was a kid, we’d go to the movies, and my parents would reach out to everyone around us in the theater, most of whom could barely afford the movie ticket. They’d hand out popcorn and Milk Duds, strike up conversations with them, lend shoulders to cry on, learn their names, and smile at everyone.
The reality is that diversity as an overall subject has to continue to be addressed onscreen. That goes beyond having a gay superhero. There should be a black superhero, a Latino superhero and, while we’re at it, we still aren’t seeing nearly enough women behind the scenes and as the anchors of movies.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
I hate movies that tell people what to think. I’m proud that Democrats thought ‘Thank You For Smoking‘ was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I’m proud that pro-choice people thought ‘Juno’ was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.
My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.
Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul.
Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn’t turn out very well – you go, ‘Why did you do that?’ But in the end, I can’t regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
I watch a lot of movies. I’ve watched movies since I was a kid. My dad brought me to the theater once a week. Always – it was a must. So I think that influenced me a lot to be an actor.
Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what’s really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don’t let them go.
Malaysian Tamil movies are amateurish, with songs picked up from our old Tamil movies and inserted in between.
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it’s about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Scary movies, for me, I used to be insanely scared of.
I’m not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.
Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It’s more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.
I’ve been lucky, I’ve had movies that made a lot of money, so I don’t feel like I have to kill every time out. I don’t want that pressure. I don’t need it.
Hollywood, we get it. The Christian faith just doesn’t work for you ‘in the long run.’ However, for a large percentage of this country (the same country that makes your movies millions of dollars), it does. So please, for all of our sakes, keep your ‘beliefs to yourself’ and just ‘stop the hate.’
I don’t believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn’t have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn’t help me.
There are movies where we are interested in seeing people’s lives without agreeing with what they’re doing.
I make movies I want to see.
I collect movies. So I have all those in binders. I don’t have the DVDs out. I put them in binders.
Movies will always be movies, and you can never replace that feeling of when the lights go down and the image comes up.
I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
What’s so cool about movies is once you’re done with the movie, you put it away and come up with a whole new different idea with different characters and a different world. But in TV, you build these characters, and you build this world, and then you’re there for however long you do the show.
I only drive in movies. I know that’s very weird to hear for an American. I have a weird relationship with it. I know how to drive, but I never went to take the test.
I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, ‘It’s about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.’ So I knew I wanted to make films.
I grew up with action movies in my head.
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
My favourite movies are ‘Jawbreaker’ and ‘Heathers.’
My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that’s kind of hard to fathom.
I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can’t really take myself completely out of the movies I make.
Horror movies are the best date movies. There’s no wondering, ‘When do I put my arm around her?’
Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
That’s the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn’t matter if you’re a nice guy or you’re a prick. If your movies do well, there’s a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It’s not any more complicated than that.
With ‘Girls’… I feel like there’s an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it’s always the imperfection I’m always more attracted to.
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
I even get inspired by movies that aren’t very good, because there’s always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There’s good in everything, I find.
I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he’s Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I’m a big fan of his.
Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn’t go see it.
I didn’t get my hair cut for two movies, and it got a little long. I’m going back to a… not a crew cut. Back to, oh, about a Presbyterian length.
I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like ‘An American Werewolf in London‘ in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.
I do like a lot of the ’70s movies. I love Charles Bronson in ‘Hard Times.’ All my favorite movies where ones from yesteryear. The ’70s was a good era. I love all those.
I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I’m not fond of them as much as I’m fond of small actor scenes.
I was a scared kid… I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else‘s lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
When I was a kid, I was really into ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ and ‘Friday the 13th.’ But as I got older and started working as an actor, I did not really get scared by horror movies as much, so I am not as into them anymore.
I always say horror films are great date movies. In the first twenty minutes, you’re going to end up in each other’s arms.
We’re only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren’t enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.
I went to the opening of ‘Sister Act,’ and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining.
I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies… Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
Skinniness is not your friend when you’re over 40. I’d like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn’t look at myself.
And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn’t make? If it’s good, it stands up.
Well, I’m a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.
The ‘Planet of the Apes’ movies made me wanna – probably unconsciously – be an actor. Seriously. And The Mummy – and ‘Hammer horror’ movies. ‘Fantastic.’ I loved stuff like that, and that stuff probably did more than anything to make me wanna do it.
There’s an electrical thing about movies.
I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.
Horror is so often a ‘thinkless’ genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
I think in Israel there is so much talent in the TV world because there’s less movies done.
I’ve always enjoyed bad guys throughout all movies.
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
If you don’t like my movies, don’t watch them.
There are different reasons to make movies.
All my good movies, nobody sees.
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
If we can make some movies that have a positive effect on people’s lives and on our culture, that’s enough for me.
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.
I do intelligent roles. I don’t want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I’m more mature than kids my age because I’m constantly surrounded by adults.
I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.
I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I’m incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
My family loves movies. My dad and I used to eat a huge breakfast, and then we’d just go hang out at the theater all day together. We loved movies like ‘Indiana Jones‘ and ‘James Bond.’ We were both big action-adventure movie fans. So I kind of grew up with an appreciation for film.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
For me, playing a chubby or fat superhero was so special because I would go and watch these movies with my friends and would never see anyone like me. I am excited to be that for other kids who look like me.
I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
I didn’t have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
I think there’s a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I’ve felt it.
Before I start, I search the internet for hours looking for inspiration – I look at horror movies, special effects, everything. Then, I take a bunch of screenshots, and pile them together in Photoshop to create a story for myself. I plan it out in my head, but I don’t ever practice beforehand.
I was a student of law as my grandmother wanted me to be a lawyer. But my passion has always been movies.
It’s the story that counts.
I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.
This is how I feel about horror films: there’s enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.
I think movies, I think art, can change the world.
Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome.
Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.
It’s a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven’t manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
For me, I like to be different. I didn’t want to imitate another wrestler. I always try to find something from other genres, like movies, books, art, and musicals. That’s how I made my style.
My movies are painfully personal, but I’m never trying to let you know how personal they are. It’s my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. ‘Kill Bill’ is a very personal movie.
Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.
My favorite thing about making movies is that it’s the only area of human life that I’ve ever discovered where I can walk away from somebody in the middle of a conversation with somebody and they won’t be offended.
I’ve been told that having an Instagram account will help me book more roles, get more endorsement deals. It makes you more of a brand. But I’m not interested. I want to build my fan base through movies and movies alone.
Everything makes me nervous – except making films.
I’ve never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.
People have made sure of that, that you can’t shock anybody anymore. It’s not just because of movies and TV. It’s because of what’s happening in the world.
I got my MFA from AFI as a director in 2010. I’ve had time to make the shorts that I made previous to ‘Hereditary‘ and to kind of build these movies in my head.
People say, ‘Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.’ I think I’ve done two, out of 60.
I make movies that audiences like, that I’d want to see. That’s all.
It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
I’ve managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.
I’ve seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.
Often we’d secretly like to do the very things we discipline ourselves against. Isn’t that true? Well, here in the movies I can be as mean, as wicked as I want to – and all without hurting anybody.
One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven’t done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.
I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.
I’m from Hollywood. That’s where we make movies and TV shows… I’m not from down here in men-fus ten-uh-see, okay?
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
I don’t think you retire from movies; movies retire you.
‘Seanan McGuire’ is my real name; if I’m being silly and third-person about it, she’s a frequently cranky, foul-mouthed Disney Princess on vacation in the real world, where she studies diseases, cuddles reptiles, watches lots of horror movies, and goes to as many corn fields as possible.
What is important for me is that people are liking my movies, I am liking my work, for which I am very happy.
Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.
Like any other creative person, I would make home videos, and I would make sketches with my friends, and I would make my own movies, so I have some love for the creative process.
Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.
I feel like it’s harder to get women to show up for movies.
I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.
I’m not a huge fan of horror movies myself because I’m a big baby and I get too scared to watch them.
I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
You can’t intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it’s going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
If your movies don’t perform, they just stop calling you.
I’m not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt.
I don’t get jobs in films by auditioning. I’m not blonde. You can’t place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It’s very difficult for my agents.
More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.
I never get to go to movies, because I’m a mom.
I don’t like scary movies.
The movie I’ve seen the most is ‘Ghostbusters’ or ‘Ghostbusters II.’ I used to watch those movies nonstop.
The Shining‘ is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me.
There are a lot of movies I’d like to throw away. That’s not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don’t work.
I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I’d sing for whoever‘s on the door, and they’d let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I’d sing something like, ‘Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,’ and they’d let me in.
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It’s wonderful, isn’t it?
When I started to watch some of the films I’d done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.
I’ve found that if you wear a beret, people think you’re either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.
We don’t make movies for critics, since they don’t pay to see them anyhow.
Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It’s just a part of life.
I often begin movies with music in my head; it’s a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don’t like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.
I look up to actors. I look up to Robert DeNiro, I look up to Johnny Depp, I look up to Al Pacino, I look up to run-of-the-mill really good actors. I love watching movies, and I love watching other actors and learning from them.
As most actors/actresses, I don’t like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles – it’s a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
I’m a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.
I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they’re much more liberating because you don’t really have to apply a very strict logic.
Very often I’ve known people who wouldn’t say a word to each other, but they’d go to see movies together and experience life that way.
I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.
You won’t find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don’t speak to me. People don’t come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I’m this dark, twisted, miserable person.
Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they’re sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.
That’s the time I remember as a kid, being so excited to go to the movies. To be part of that now is really an amazing gift.
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’ Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with ‘Close Encounters’ and ‘2001.’ Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
I was scared of everything growing up. I still don’t like scary movies.
When I go to Batman movies, I always think, ‘Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.’ especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.
Harvard‘s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
I don’t storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot – on the air, as we say – at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.
