I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.
Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.
I have a maple leaf tattoo over my heart, quite literally, and my two favorite things on Earth are being in Canada and making movies.
Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.
Movies are like magic tricks.
I'm used to watching old movies of myself.
I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.
I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.
I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.
I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.
I only make movies I want to go see.
I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.
I make movies based on gut.
And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.
One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.
I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
