In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't k...
I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still o...
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience mem...
Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn'...
I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lo...
I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.
I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. Y...
I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi some...
I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for...
I don't direct movies for a living.
I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.
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 learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.
Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. W...
I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.