Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.
One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.
I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.
I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.
Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.
With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.
