My whole life I though I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along.
I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I hav...
I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.
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.
I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.
I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I liv...
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and wha...
It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
I make movies I want to see.
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You canno...