You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. There are so many of her movies that I love.
I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
People really love 'Madea' movies and get a kick out of them. They're phenomenally successful. People get excited when a new one's coming out.
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so that's when I kind of fell in love with acting.
I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.
I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.
The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.
Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.
If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.
'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism.
As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.
I was on a game show and now I'm the game show girl who got a movie. That's how I consider myself.
You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.
We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two - Bit Waltz'. We just wrapped. It was a blast, blast, blast.
Some might not know that 'What's Happening' was the television version of 'Cooly High.' When I went on the audition, it was an audition for exactly that: the TV version of the movie.
You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.
When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!
