Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.
I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.
I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.
It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.
Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.
It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.
I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
