In 'Delhi Belly,' I was bald; in other movies I always carried a different look.
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being 'Get Out,' is about race and neglect and marginalization.
When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.
You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.
I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
All the PG-13 superhero movies are depriving me of the gore that I need.
The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
I tend to detach myself from movies once I'm done shooting them, because after that, it's in the hands of God. And it doesn't help if I panic.
There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector.
The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?
I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.
I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.
In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn't be able to watch this. But I don't play in movies like this. Due to that, I said, 'I won't be a part of that if the hardcore language is not erased.'
