You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
When you do a movie, you go to the location and get into your costume. It's part of your metamorphosis into your character, and it just made sense to do it.
After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.
I did a movie called 'The Hole' with this kid Nathan Gamble, so when I'm old and wrinkly, he could play me. He's awesome.
To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.
If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.
People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.
I now hate actors that blink too much on screen. When people blink, I turn the movie off. So I don't blink at all.
I’ve seen the first three Terminator movies in succession more times in my life than I have shaved my legs.
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.
We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.
To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.
You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.
You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.
After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.
