I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.
I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that’s a great career to have where you’re doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he’s primarily an actor.
Dude, I didn’t say Jude Law can’t act. I didn’t say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he’s in every movie.
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It’s a place I live in. It’s a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that’s supposed to be a profession.
A lot of times I’ll make films that are mostly character-driven films – stories that involve people. Like, I make the joke: I like to make movies about human beings that live on Earth.
I definitely want to study film. I’d like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.
I’ve only been to high school on TV and in movies. I’ve never actually been to high school.
Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything – they aren’t slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.
I just kind of hang out, watch movies and play golf.
We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away.
Comic-book movies are mythology, in a way, and there are a lot more parallels in them with what’s going on in the real world than people want to discuss.
I’m relaxed about my career. I’ve been making movies for over 20 years, so I’ve earned at least the right to relax.
I would say that ‘After the Storm’ is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies.
I usually don’t cry at movies, although I will get sad. I’m okay with it, though. It’s good to make people cry.
You don’t forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.
I always wanted to be an actor, and I wanted to be a part of good movies. Wherever I get to do these two things, it’s enough for me.
I definitely have found a balance. I’ve had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.
In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today’s exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids’ loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.
I’m not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for ‘That Hagen Girl’, which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
Only directors like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who make period films, have songs in their movies that facilitate the inclusion of classical dance forms. No one else is concentrating on making pure classical numbers.
I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to ‘Conan.’
Good movies are difficult to make, and good trash is even harder to make.
Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you’ve really gone somewhere.
It was cool when the Duffers assigned a list of movies to watch.
