Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.
The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.
When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.
I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.
Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first three movies, all in Cuba.
I love TV, and I love movies, and I pull so much content from the drama in all of those mediums and put them into songs.
I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great.
Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
'Somewhere in Time' is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. It's super melodrama.
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.
I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.
I like to make movies on the west side of the Mississippi River, and a lot of times, the movies I direct have horses and big hats in them and get called westerns, but that's okay. I used to resent that, but I don't anymore.
Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.
I think a lot of times, in a lot of modern-day movies, a lot of things are CGI, but so much of the stuff in 'Star Wars' is built and created by these artists.
I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
