When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year t...
Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, const...
The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
I don't think film actors need training, really.
Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.
One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'
I'd like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie's 'Salt.'
I've done a lot of independent films that not a lot of people have seen.
'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.
But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you're not snooping into somebody else's lives?
I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.
The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.
My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.
TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.
Film is limitless, but some stage presentations on film can look too theatrical.
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
