I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded...
How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.
I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flower...
But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspirati...
TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I...
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.
Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.
The literary experience extends impression into discourse. It flowers to thought with nouns, verbs, objects. It thinks. Film implodes discourse, it deliterates thought, it shrinks it to the compacted...
I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.
Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as wit...
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd o...
I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.
My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at...