When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.
For my 'Perfect Chemistry' series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.
I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.
I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top - and never fell off.
I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.
If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'
As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.
If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.
I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.
JK Rowling combines the ideas and imagination of an entire Hollywood movie studio with the precise execution of an extremely efficient dictator.
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.
OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.
If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out.
My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'
I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.
I watched 'A Chorus Line' over and over when I was growing up, to the point that I was able to recite the entire movie.
