The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.
When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.
I just love good movies. And not every movie you're going to end up in is always going to turn out right, but at least walk into it with the right intention.
There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.
'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.
I don't know if 'Crash' is a good movie or not because I didn't set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment.
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get scared.
'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
It's about balance. Do a movie that's good for your career, then do a one that gets good box office.
There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.
Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being e...
A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.
I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.
I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.
I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.
If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great.
Chris Nolan is great, but I've never seen any of the 'Batman' movies all the way through. I know they're good. I just have zero interest in those kinds of movies.
If you look at the least effective of the 'Twilight' movies, it was when they brought in an action-movie director instead of a director who was really a good storyteller. And you can tell the difference.
The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.
