Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.
I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fat...
Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.
I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.
I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.
Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.
I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little...
I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants...
John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.
I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to particip...
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeli...
When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.
Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.
I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.