In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.
When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.
I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.
I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.
I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.
My roles don't centre around drugs at all! Shadiness is different - it's drama. We're making movies! You've gotta have conflict.
I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.'
My parents don't really watch movies at all.
It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.
When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks ...
I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.
Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.
I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.
People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
