If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.
The truth is, if I was maybe better or funnier or prettier, wouldn't I have starred in a movie? I can see it objectively as a businesswoman - if no one's buying your product, then there's not a desire for it.
Vincent: What's your name? Spike: Spike... Spiegel... Vincent: I'll meet you at the end of this world.
[there's nothing but noodles to eat] Spike: Man shouldn't have to live on carbohydrates alone, complex or otherwise.
Uncle Les: Ahhh, so you found your father's old stag movies, didn't ya?
Frank: I want you to watch the movie screen. There's something I want to show you.
Dolores Fuller: You people are insane! You're wasting your lives making shit! Nobody cares! These movies are terrible!
[describing Bruce] Walter Burns: He looks like that fellow in the movies - Ralph Bellamy.
Big Joe: I'm going to Battalion to see if I can get some dirty movies...
Emmet: Uh, guys? We're about to crash into the sun. Batman: Yeah, but it's gonna look really cool.
Bad Cop: You were found at the construction site convulsing with a strange piece. Emmet: That's disgusting!
June: I don't go to movies. Griffin Mill: Why not? June: Life is too short.
For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite; it's really true.
I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.
Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.
Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.
I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.
A financial shift happened with 'Facing the Giants' and 'Fireproof,' where movies that were faith-based films were profitable. And people in Hollywood - like people in downtown U.S.A. - are out to make money.
