I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.
I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'
I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze t...
I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.
I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones.
I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about.
There's a lot of 'Batman' movies. This element that is 'Batman,' that remains unchanged. However, the theme around him is constantly changing. 'Dark Knight' came out after 9/11. You can understand that when you watch the movie, because there's some a...
When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.
I don't intentionally make deep movies.
I cry in movies a lot, and over books.
When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.
I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness.
