I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.
My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.
I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.
I'd rather do a lot of movies than a TV series and do a lot of different roles than be stuck in one TV thing.
Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.
Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.
I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.
The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.
I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.
It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
