All my films have been criticised, but here I stand with six superhits and three 100-crore films!
My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.
I've done 21 films in eight years, and I've said 'No' more times than I've done films.
I don't get to see a lot of films, so I want to watch films I learn from.
Sometimes you remember more about the location where you shot the film than the film itself.
I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.
What challenges me is this - I want to walk out of a film with the experience of having done a film, not with a feeling that I have sleepwalked through it.
My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.
I have a production company called Home Theater Films which makes faith-based films.
I made four films on John F. Kennedy, filmed when he was running for office, in office, and after his death.
A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.
You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.
I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?
A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
I've done about four deaths in films now, and I think it's quite good because then it's sort of a memorable moment in the film.
The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles.
There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.
A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.
James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
