I’ve found that if you wear a beret, people think you’re either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.
There is the moral spectrum in ‘Fargo,’ and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.
When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies… Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how’d they do that.
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life – really! But even those movies that I’d like to forget teach me things.
I like zombie movies, and I like genre movies a lot. To watch. Less so to make, I think. But I grew up on that stuff. I would just grow up watching a lot of horror movies, a lot of slasher movies and then zombie movies.
I’ve done movies with a sword before. But I haven’t really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
I’ve never seen ‘The Goonies.’ I’ve never seen ‘Indiana Jones.’ I watched ‘UHF’ over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched ‘Naked Gun,’ ‘UHF,’ and ‘Airplane!’ over and over.
I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life – to real life, you could almost say – and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.
‘The Princess Bride’ is one of my favorite movies of all time.
I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I’d seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.
I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.
There’s always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic.
Our job with Thanos is to make him the preeminent villain in the Marvel Universe. That is his role in the comics. That’s his role in these movies.
Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.
Prior to having my first child, I had a huge ambition to go into movies and TV.
I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies… Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
‘Little Miss Sunshine’ snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don’t hold out huge hope for.
Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it’s a great feeling.
This social media era is giving us a more in-depth look at our favorite people, and it’s all aspects, from music to movies to television to sports. I think it has been somewhat of a distraction at times, but also a huge benefit.
For some reason and I don’t know why, but I don’t think that I’m funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.
I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in ‘Big Momma’s House,’ and that’s something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don’t think I would ever seek a career as a singer.
What’s happening to me is I’m still happy and functioning, being able to listen to music, see good movies, read good books. What else is there that I can’t, you know, I mean, I’m OK.
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others – partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
I’ll go to the movies and hear ‘Angel From Montgomery’ in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don’t tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don’t have to, so they don’t tell you. You get paid eventually.
