One of the reasons so many kids bought 'Famous Monsters' was that it gave them ability to order 8mm and Super-8 versions of their favorite monster movies.
Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?
I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.
So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.
In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.
The hardest part of directing is the choosing. Unlike an actor who can do a variety of work, it is a year of your life, you can't afford to get it wrong.
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.
If you make something with love and, you know, passion and you tell a real story, I think it will always find an audience somehow, you know.
I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.
I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.
You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.
