I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.
I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
I did this movie about Salvador Dali a few years ago and had hair extensions and a little bob. That was incredibly bizarre.
Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.
I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.
And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.
I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.
If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
There's people saying that 'Jackie Brown' was a blaxploitation movie, when there's nothing at all blaxploitation about it other than Pam Grier being in it.
I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.
How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.
Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.
My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.
I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.
I get a little nauseous and disoriented watching 3D, but as a kid I loved it and I was really into it, so if a movie can be in 3D, then why not?
It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.
Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'
