More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services – from movies to agriculture to national defense.
When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.
Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen’s funny movies – all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.
It’s a sad commentary on our time – to use a phrase much favored by my late father – that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.
More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.
I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.
Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals.
When I started in movies, they said I’d be this big star, but I was only a moderate one. Not enough good pictures. It’s important to be in a good piece of work no matter the size of one’s own part.
My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.
I’ve been naked in a lot of my movies. There’s something inherently funny about the naked male body, particularly mine.
Life is short. I’m 47 years old. I’ve got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I’ve made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?
It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.
Honestly, I’m not a big movie buff in general. The only movies I own is probably the ‘Indiana Jones’ trilogy.
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.
I don’t want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it’s just too hard these days.
I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I’m OK with it. I’m not OK with it in other places, but if the government’s going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.
There’s no reason to think Disney is going to stop wanting to make ‘Star Wars’ movies if there’s quality and there’s interest. It has unlimited potential. It has a huge number of characters, worlds… It’s a massive playground.
With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, ‘Put some music in there.’
Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we’re talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade’s non-teen culture has no staying power at all.
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don’t care about making movies, film school will do you no good.
Oh I love horror movies, yeah. I think my favorite movie growing up was ‘The Omen.’ I actually wanted to be that little kid.
I love movies that make me cry, because they’re tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?
I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.
I watched all these movies like ‘King Kong’ and ‘Godzilla’ when I was growing up, and the fact that dinosaurs actually lived on this earth, the fact that they are not fake, made them very fascinating.
