I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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...
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...
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
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.
Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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.
I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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.
All my good movies, nobody sees.
I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'
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 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.
In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.
The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.