People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.
I now hate actors that blink too much on screen. When people blink, I turn the movie off. So I don't blink at all.
I’ve seen the first three Terminator movies in succession more times in my life than I have shaved my legs.
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.
We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.
To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.
You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.
You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.
After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.
We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis.
I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.
It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.
When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.
When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.
'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.
