With movies, it always feels like such a long shot getting it made.
I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now.
When I'm feeling a little empty in the head, I like to go see movies or read to loosen things up there.
I'm a huge fan of Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' movies - I went to all three of them on the day they opened and have seen all of them several times since.
Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.
A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just doing bad TV movies, that was a personal low point. I felt I needed to stop doing those, and I did.
Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.
Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.
Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.
In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we can't keep erasing history.
It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.
The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.
Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
I have three young children, and I kind of stopped going to movies in 2006. I go to see some, but I'm a little bit out of touch, and I didn't know who Marion Cotillard was.
I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.
I watch a lot of classic movies - my TV guilty pleasures are 'The Wonder Years' or the original 'MASH' show.
I don't scoff at the desire to make good movies. I scoff at the quality at poseurs masquerading as masters of the medium.
