I don't like message movies either.
I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart p...
The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of...
You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.
I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.
I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.
There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.
You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them. You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.
I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.
There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.
