Reading a book is like living a deep and fulfilling life. Watching a movie is like being a paralyzed person: watching others live their lives while you observe from the sidelines.
I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.
Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve...
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and y...
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.
For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.
I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.
When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after...
I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.
If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.
I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.
I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to c...
I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.
I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.