Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.
I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.
I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.
It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
I'm such a fan girl when it comes to movies, TV and sci-fi, sometimes I can't believe I actually get to be in them.
I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.
I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy... I wanna scare people.
I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.
