It is important to consider that the horror movies should – like modern art – not have a too obvious meaning. When you watch them, it is more important what you feel than what you understand.
I’ve always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.
When I was little, I watched a lot of Disney movies – so I always imagined a big fairytale wedding as a kid. But when marriage became real, I felt an intimate wedding with close family and friends would be better.
I’m not a fan of horror movies at all, I’m a real wuss when it comes to the genre and I think ‘The Woman’ would totally scare me if I hadn’t been working on it.
The movies I’ve made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I’ve had to play has been me in that time in my life.
When you’re in L.A., and you’re making movies and that kind of stuff, you don’t really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like.
I like movies that make you semi fall in love with the villain so you have sympathy for him.
I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it.
‘Pacific Rim,’ for me, was a chance to touch on those old Toho monster movies. ‘Godzilla’ and ‘Rodan’… and then ‘Ultraman’ and ‘Robotech’ and all those kinds of things.
I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning ‘Who am I?’ I’m hooked.
I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.
Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it’s the one that I still really love when I watch it and I’m pretty happy with what I didn in that.
I hadn’t watched any Hitchcock movies when I made ‘Tom at the Farm,’ except for ‘Vertigo’ when I was 8 years old. I don’t have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
Movies don’t make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they’re mean bastards at heart.
I’ve barfed in movies before. It seems like it always ends up being Campbell’s soup mixed with something else.
Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.
I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
I was kind of burned out, a little jaded, and just sort of disillusioned by all the ‘Mighty Duck’ movies and everything just being about making money and not really caring about scripts anymore.
There are a lot of movies I’d like to throw away. That’s not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don’t work.
Brad Pitt’s role in ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ – I want to do that so bad! That’s one of my favorite movies of all time, and that character was so funny.
There have been so many ‘James Bond’ movies, ‘Spiderman’ films, ‘Mission Impossible’ series, etc. Is there any difference in the basic story? Yet, each time there’s a release, people are excited.
I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it’s easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.
I like a lot of documentaries, I like political movies and political thrillers. But I also like a good action movie. I like a pretty wide range.
