Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.
It's a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.
A silent yawn is a scream for coffee
You have to be silent, but ready
I observe and remain silent.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings.
I didn't watch horror movies when I was a kid. I didn't watch any bad movies.
'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig.
When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.
Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.
Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.
You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of...
The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.
I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.
