I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.
I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.
I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.
There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.
I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.
Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.
I'm actually a really shy person. I just really enjoy being in studio; I don't go out much.
When I was 15, 16, I studied with Stella Adler at the Conservatory of Acting, then I stopped again and went to the Actors Studio when I was 18.
I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.
In the contract days, the big studios groomed us to play particular roles and we would stay with the image they gave us and insisted on.
I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.
Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)
As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.
Being on my own in a studio is really, really different than making music with the band. I can't say I necessarily enjoy it more, but it was just a new experience for me.
I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.
My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.
Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.
Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.
