You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies are boring and predictable. All you have to do is know how to sell yourself, let yourself be manufactured.
Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you want to throw up. You don't always have to take things so serious, you know.
I have a lot of things I want to do. I have a lot of fire. I want to do film. I want to do action movies. I want to do period pieces.
It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.
I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible a...
I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.
There are roles for all types of movies. I mean, you still want to watch the urban movies, and they need to be told. You still want to see something you haven't seen before.
I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.
I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.
On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
