I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.
JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise execution of an extremely efficient dictator.
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.
OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.
If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out.
My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'
I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.
I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.
I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
'Banshee' was interesting because it was on cable, and it didn't have commercial breaks, so it read like a movie. Not only because of that, but it was a pretty interesting style, and I hadn't read a show like this.
If I get some Bruce Lee nun-chucks that he actually used in a movie, those are going in the case. Those will never be used. Those will never be touched.
I don't put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.
I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.
