Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.
Watching movies was like going to school for me. It still is. You're always learning. Even if it's bad, you're learning what not to do.
Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'
When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's...
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozar...
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
I only make movies to finance my fishing'.
If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely g...
Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms...
I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.
When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.
I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There we...
It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.
I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.
I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.
It's not that we like sad movies that make us feel like, 'Oh, my God, what a bummer.' We like emotionally moving experiences. It's nothing new. It's catharsis. It goes back to the Greeks.
I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.
I really wanted to be a mom. I didn't want my kids to be raised by a nanny, which would have been the case if I were working two movies in a year, you know? And I would have been hospitalized with fat...
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