A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.
My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.
I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the oppor...
I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.
I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the dir...
I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces.
I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for so...
The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.
The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.
I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.
I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first...