My goal is definitely to direct features - action movies, that's my favorite genre. So I would love to do the 'Halo' movie.
In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
I think we sublimated our Broadway desires by doing theater in Hollywood - not on stage but by doing the movies of 'Chicago' and 'Hairspray' and also musicals on TV. We did Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Cinderella' and 'Gypsy' and 'Annie.' Even 'Smash' was like doing theater.
I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.
Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.
The hardest part about making movies is staying the exact same weight every day and looking the same.
There have been 14 versions that I can find of Burke & Hare movies. They have all been horror films and all the movies have taken place in Victorian times, which doesn't make any sense.
Still one of my favorite movies is the original 'The Haunting.' I love that style.
I'd been a fan of old film comedies like Preston Sturges and Howard Hawks movies - the fast-paced dialogue in movies like 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby' and 'Twentieth Century' and 'Sullivan's Travels.'
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.
One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.
All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?
The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!
In my top five favorite movies is a movie called 'Heavy Weights.' I was a chunkier kid and dreamed of going to fat camp with go-karts and stuff. That was written by Judd Apatow.
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
If you ask me whether I can direct, I can. In fact, I have shot several songs, scenes and stunts. When certain directors of my movies were not able to be there for some reason and had asked me to help out, I have directed. But to helm an entire movie is a different art altogether.
Quite often in comic book movies, very good actresses are relegated to being the girlfriend or the helper or the sidekick or something.
Getting those parts in the Christopher Guest movies was the second biggest helper to my career after 'Fernwood.'
We used to watch the muscle movies on Saturday matinees, such as 'Hercules Unchained.' Then we'd go outside and do a remake of it.
