My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, an...
I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.
I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies.
I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.
I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. Smell up the whole place. The most impactful movies were 'Godfather II' and 'Scarface'. I loved the huma...
I had a teacher who loved movies. He had a little theatre called The Flick, and he would let a bunch of us volunteer to work there, and he also let us make little movies in class.
I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.
I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topic...
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've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.
I like the good feeling movies.
I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.
Every great film should seem new every time you see it.