I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.
I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.
My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.
In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background.
How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.
My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.
I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.
I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.
'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.
People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.
My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.
I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.
