Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas. There was a moment where the idea came to me. With 'The Hunger Games,' the lightning bolt sort of hit at a moment when I was channel surfing between reality TV and ...
In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. But learning to make a movie ...
Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game ...
I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the Un...
I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have w...
Let us say in the pocket of one of my old coats I find a movie ticket from many years ago. Once I see the ticket, not only do I remember that I saw this movie, but also scenes from this movie, which I think I have entirely forgotten, come back to me....
I started very, very young to make movies - I was 21. And at the age of 27, 28, I'd done already three movies.
Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.
I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.
I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.
People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
Will Smith is the biggest movie star I've ever met, and he couldn't be more gracious.
Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
If you dress like a movie star, you have me.
You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.
I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.
The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.
The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
