My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in preschool - I don't know why.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'
I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.
If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.
A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.
I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.
I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.
I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
I honestly love any good chick flick, as long as it's a good movie or pretty funny. 'Love Actually' is a no-brainer.
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.
The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.
If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.
It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
