I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.
The action movies changed radically when it became possible to Velcro your muscles on. It was the beginning of a new era. The visual took over. The special effects became more important than the single person. That was the beginning of the end.
There might have been a period around 'Tango & Cash' when I was nearly fashionable. My problem is that my weight's always been changing for the movies I'm in.
The day I can't walk is the day I quit movies.
You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.
Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.
I never go overbudget on my movies.
My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.
I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.
My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.
I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.
With movies, it's 10 or 12 or sometimes even 24 weeks, if it's a massive movie, to live within a character. But with a show that's successful, if you start in the first or second season and go until the end, you're always finding new elements of your...
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.
It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
