It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make...
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
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...
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.
I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.
It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
After All The.Purge.Election.Year.2016 wasn't a big deal, it could be better, I have watched and better movies.
My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.
I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.
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...
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
I was always attracted to science fiction movies.
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...
Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.