Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
Watching a film was like being a voyeur, living vicariously.
She found it made things easier if she dramatised them. Or melodramatised them. It was easier, for example, to face the fact of Uncle Philip if she saw him as a character in a film, possibly played by...
I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.
I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.
I don't like most Christmas movies. They're pretty bad, though they seem to make tons of money anyway. Like this movie 'Elf,' I got the script for that, and I turned it down right away. Against my wif...
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
Why torture yourself when life will do it for you?
No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.
I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.
I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my...
The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many t...
I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.
On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.
But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies...
When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their s...
Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.