When I saw 'Jurassic Park' as a kid, that was the first time I thought about making movies for a living.
I really love the movies of Katherine Hepburn, movies like 'The African Queen.' I love 'Midnight Run' and I suppose, to pick something out of a different genre, I love 'Aliens.'
I forgive 'Face in the Crowd' its uneven tone because it's precisely what makes it feel unlike other Kazan movies.
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.
I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.
Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.
By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.
Look at the movies of the sixties and seventies. They were making a different kind of movie then. Would 'Network' ever be made now? No. Would 'Kramer vs. Kramer' ever be made now? No. Would 'Tootsie' ever be made now? Probably not. Robert Altman films? Never.
Does anyone remember who shot Kubrick's movies? Do you remember who shot David Lean's movies? No one remembers who shot 'Dr. Strangelove' or 'Barry Lyndon.'
Growing up, all of my friends would set their schedules to the showing of kung fu movies on TV.
I'm a huge lover of 'Seven Samurai' and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious.
A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
I still think 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' was what they call one of those watershed movies. That and 'The Exorcist' and 'Psycho' were just landmarks for those horror films.
So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.
There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.
'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced.
Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.
All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.
