It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they g...
I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.
I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.
Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.
If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.
I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
The movies that will truly be successful will feel different than the movies of the year before.
I've worked on some movies that get put in the horror shelf on the video stores, but they're really structurally like mysteries, and not so dependent on the gore factor, so they really don't need to be R-rated movies.
For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.
The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.
Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.
I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I known for? My bit part.
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.
I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
I like to make movies I like to watch.
I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
