I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.
My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in preschool - I don't know why.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'
I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.
If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.
A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.
I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.
I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.
I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
I honestly love any good chick flick, as long as it's a good movie or pretty funny. 'Love Actually' is a no-brainer.
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.
The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.
