Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me a...
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.
All Sam Peckinpah ever did in his movies was show that getting hit on the chin doesn't sound like [makes a small popping noise]. When one grown man hits another grown man in the face, it splatters lik...
Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out.
I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.
I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
It's hard to incorporate dance into movies I think.
Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.
I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.
I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.