During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.
If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.
I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.
I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.
From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.
In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.
I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.
I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.
The truth is, if I was maybe better or funnier or prettier, wouldn't I have starred in a movie? I can see it objectively as a businesswoman - if no one's buying your product, then there's not a desire for it.
Vincent: What's your name? Spike: Spike... Spiegel... Vincent: I'll meet you at the end of this world.
[there's nothing but noodles to eat] Spike: Man shouldn't have to live on carbohydrates alone, complex or otherwise.
Uncle Les: Ahhh, so you found your father's old stag movies, didn't ya?
Frank: I want you to watch the movie screen. There's something I want to show you.
Dolores Fuller: You people are insane! You're wasting your lives making shit! Nobody cares! These movies are terrible!
[describing Bruce] Walter Burns: He looks like that fellow in the movies - Ralph Bellamy.
Big Joe: I'm going to Battalion to see if I can get some dirty movies...
