A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.
I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives t...
Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.
I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit.
Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.
I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.
There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.
I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire G...
You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.
You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.
I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.
