I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.
Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.
I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.
When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.
I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.
All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.
You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.
I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.
I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.
Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.
The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.
I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are.
