My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.
I was just after Generation X. I missed the John Hughes movies; I had to watch them on TBS.
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.
You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.
I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.
I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.
Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.
I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.
When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.
