I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.
I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.
Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.
It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.
I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.
Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.
Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.
I think people respect my work, but I was never in one of those movies that made me a star.
I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.
