I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
I’m not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from – I don’t want to say the spotlight – how about responsibility? It’s just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. ‘Captain America.’ This is the stuff I struggle with.
I want to be like Tom Cruise from ‘The Outsiders’ and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.
I’m carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get ‘Okaaaaaay, honey.’ I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.
I love, love, love, love horror movies.
I’m not a strikingly handsome guy, but I’m in movies.
I want to make movies that pierce people’s hearts and touch them in some way, even if it’s just for the night while they’re in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
One of the best movies of the year was ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes.’ That’s not just an action movie – it’s a prison film.
I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.
I enjoy certain things, but I don’t go out; I don’t party. I just like watching movies, making fun music, and having a good time hanging out with the people who helped me get here – I’m a really simple guy.
Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, ‘Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don’t go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.’
We all need illusions. That’s why we love movies.
Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don’t have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.
I love the ‘70s. I think the ’70s had the best music and the best movies.
I’ve got a huge family back in Ireland, and I’ve made loads of movies in Ireland.
There’s more to life than movies.
You know when you watch old movies, it’s always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it’s just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.
For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it’s possible to actually reach success doing movies.
I’ve said this a million times. But I’ve always wanted to do movies.
You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films – their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
We need a lot more positive Latin role models in movies and in television. They exist! It’s not fiction.
As much as movies are about the words that you’re saying, they’re also about what’s not said, the silent moments.
