Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
Women couldn’t identify with her and didn’t support her.
You’ve seen the movies. Bad guy always comes back.
Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?
This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.
Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.
The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.
You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.
Comedy is really best when watched with other people, and I don't really understand people who sit at home watching comedy movies on Netflix.
If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?
And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.
A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.
Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.