I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
I came to 20th Century Fox to do movies, and then they started a network, and they asked me to do a show as part of their starting what became the Fox network.
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.
I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.
I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
I feel like we're going to see a lot more movies that mix documentary style with fiction, more along the lines of 'District 9.'
A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me.
Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.
There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.
Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
There's a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. 'Hit Me' doesn't sell this fantasy.
My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.
Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.
I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.
At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It's definitely a gift and for which I'm thankful.
