Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.
It's a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie ...
I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.
All good actors are very bright. You can't be stupid and a good actor. You may be inarticulate, you may not be highly educated, but all good actors are quick-witted, some of them dazzlingly so. All you do is guide them.
There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.
I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.
Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.
Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings.
I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig.
When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.
Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.
