Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We’re so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.
During a movie, you lose all ability to focus on your own interests. Your life is in service. After that you just want to disappear, switch off the phone, and sleep and watch movies for a month.
Once I had seen ‘Journey to Italy,’ I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.
I’m 6-foot-4 and 240 pounds, which is average size in WWE, but in the world of television and movies, it’s huge.
My dad is a screenwriter, so he always used to watch movies for inspiration when I was a baby. I would watch movies with him, I guess, in the background.
I think whether you’re a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you’re just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.
During the off-season I like to travel, go places and learn different cultures. But during the season it’s a lot of shows, movies and sleep.
Growing up, I never thought about becoming an actress because I never saw deaf people in TV or movies. I didn’t think it was possible.
I don’t care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.
I love sports and I love sports movies.
I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don’t care about the characters, you’ve lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
My first movie was ‘The Mask Of Zorro,’ and that was all swords and horses and swashbuckling, and I thought, ‘This is what movies are.’ Obviously, I never made another one like that again; those are very rare.
I’m not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see ‘Kick-Ass’ because I’m in it. I’m not going to skip out on my own premiere!
I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.
My movies are not messed with by the studios.
I love ‘Enter the Dragon,’ and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.
We live lives that aren’t broken into neat three-act structures. On any given day anything can happen, from the hilarious to tragic. So why can’t my movies be like that?
My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people say on the Internet.
I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.
Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.
‘Clash Of The Titans’ is one of the biggest movies I’ve done; it was certainly the most effects I’ve worked with.
