I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
I'm an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.
Well into the '40s, it wasn't uncommon for big-budget Hollywood movies to contain little or no underscoring, and many of today's directors, following the lead of Martin Scorsese in 'GoodFellas,' accompany their films with pop records, not original music.
I love scary movies! My two favorites are pretty neck and neck: 'The Orphanage' and 'The Strangers.'
I was sent off to study in Georgia to keep me from movies. When I outgrow this film career, I will become a practicing doctor. I want to specialize in cardiology.
When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.
Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.
I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.
The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.
I am so scared of the 'Paranormal Activity' movies. I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep.
I'm terrified of the supernatural things, which is why I'm very grateful that I don't see things like that. Because if I did see things of the paranormal persuasion, I don't think I'd be able to continue making scary movies.
Early on in my career, when I had basically been a sitcom actor for all of these years, and I made my first movies, and they were comedies, and they were successes, it was very important for me to stretch, and 'Parenthood' was one of those films. Even though it was a comedy, there was a great deal of authentic drama in the piece as well.
We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.
I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.
