I was that kind of kid that was going to the movies every weekend, I couldn't get enough of the movies, and now I get to make them. So I kind of have a one-track mind.
Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.
I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.
Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.
Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.
Striped controller: Bad news. The fog's getting thicker. Johnny: [jumps to an overweight controller] And Leon is getting laaaaarrrrrger.
Alice: When I get home I shall write a book about this place... If I ever do get home.
Susan Vance: There *is* a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.
Sam Lowry: Mr. Helpmann, I'm keen to get into Information Retrieval. Mr. Helpmann, I'm dying to get at this woman... no, no, no.
Buddy Bizarre: Action! Oh, wait till I get out! Wait till I get out!
The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.
When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.
I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level.
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.
Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.
There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.
Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.
I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.
Often you get wonderful singers who maybe aren't as strong as actors, or you get wonderful actors who can't sing very well.
