Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.
I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies.
When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say,...
I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror.
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns...
Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.
The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see some...
TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling.
When an artist is asked to speak about form, you expect something different than when a critic talks about it. Because you think that somewhere between sentences and words, the secret will slip out. I...
Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert...
I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.
Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.
It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.
When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.
When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.