I think the idea of a distant, far off dystopia, where the world is completely different from what we have now, is good, but it's been done. Especially in YA movies.
The future is always a dystopia in movies.
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.
You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.
I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.
I used to make little movies when I was younger. I'd make my friends be in them and then edit them.
In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.
I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.
With 'The Elder Scrolls', you're looking at a 25-year-running franchise. It has stood the test of the 'Lord of the Rings' movies becoming popular.
I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.
The Emmys is great, but the Golden Globes, you have the stars of television and the stars of movies in one place.
Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.
Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.
Original movies of any size are an endangered species.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
