If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.
I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio.
Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.
I would agree 'Paul' is a sci-fi genre movie. And a road movie.
If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in preschool - I don't know why.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'
I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.
If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.
A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.
I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.
I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
