Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual.
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.
One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.
I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.
Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.
There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.
In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!
Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.
We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.
'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.
Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
I was playing a relatively high level of hockey, and I thought that's what I wanted to do. But I had my first movie audition, and I was hooked.
You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.
It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.
The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures - because they think they've made one.
