There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.
In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.
My friends tell me I'm the most boring celebrity they know! A typical night for me is at home in California or watching movies in my pyjamas.
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.
I tend to watch a lot of movies at home. It's nice to be close to the refrigerator with my pyjamas on and just relax.
I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.
I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
