What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.
If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.
I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.
Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.
In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'
I've had to make the transition from sweeping in for 15 minutes, doing my stuff and clearing out, to carrying a movie for the duration - in a dress.
I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.
The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.
As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.
I think the first movie I ever saw was a 'Star Wars' triple bill, when 'Return of the Jedi' was released.
I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling.
Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.
Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.
A record isn't like a movie - you can get it together pretty fast.
I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.
