I was not a kid who watched every movie. I watched a very small number of movies over and over again.
The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.
I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.
You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.
I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.
In Hollywood, I'm lucky, I only do big movies like 'Blade.' It's much more comfortable: you have a trailer.
I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
All my cousins are almost old enough to start seeing my movies. I'm going to have some 'splainin' to do.
I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.
My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.
I was just after Generation X. I missed the John Hughes movies; I had to watch them on TBS.
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
