The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.
During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.
As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.
The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks.
Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.
I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.
Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, 'Clint, you must remember, it's only a movie.'
I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
When you do a movie, you go to the location and get into your costume. It's part of your metamorphosis into your character, and it just made sense to do it.
After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.
I did a movie called 'The Hole' with this kid Nathan Gamble, so when I'm old and wrinkly, he could play me. He's awesome.
To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.
If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.
People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.
I now hate actors that blink too much on screen. When people blink, I turn the movie off. So I don't blink at all.
I’ve seen the first three Terminator movies in succession more times in my life than I have shaved my legs.
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
