I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
I've choreographed all of my movies.
I really like children to watch my movies.
I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories about character that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I said that to a couple of studio heads and they said, 'That's novel.'
People say, 'Gee, you do a lot of mafia movies.' I think I've done two, out of 60.
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget...
There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for it.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
And I think that I'd be a natural for scoring horror movies.
So many large movies come to you with a huge marketing campaign and it's like you have to see this movie this weekend, otherwise you'll be culturally bankrupt and can't converse with your friends.
I believe movies are better, the less you know going in.
Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.
We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.
I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.
I don't want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That's why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I'm in deep trouble.
There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.
Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.
I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.
I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.
I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.
