There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.
I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.
With the exception of 'Descent,' that was a very conscious thing to make an action or horror movie that was an all-female cast because I hadn't seen anything like that before.
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.
All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.
One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.
I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.
I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.
Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.
There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.
In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!
Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.
We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.
'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
