The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.
We seem to do better in the studio than we do in a live environment.
There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.
You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is.
I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
I have my own studio down in Miami.
We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.
I love movie sets. It's another home for me. Movie theaters and movie sets - they're just the best places to be. I love them.
I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie.
Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.
I love Hitchcock movies. I took a Hitchcock class in college, so I saw all his movies. I wrote papers on his movies.
Certainly, 3rd acts of any movie are hard. It's always hard to have something that will give you the promises from the beginning of the movie. That's true for all movies.
I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers', it can feel like you're doing three movies at once - which is tiring.
I guess a lot of things I make are relationship movies. Maybe all movies are relationship movies, because they're all about how we relate to each other.
Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.
We are the movies and the movies are us.
My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we go...
