I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences – the people who live on with this death.
I love crying at romantic movies like ‘The Notebook.’ I’m always bawling.
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.
I don’t know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don’t know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise’s movies because they’re on a kind of fantastic level. I like movies I can relate to.
I’m proudest of the fact that I’ve been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it’s never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
I grew up watching Letterman, ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘SNL,’ and Monty Python movies. But nothing made me want to get into comedy more than when ‘Mr. Show’ started airing.
When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.
I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn’t have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that.
‘The Exorcist’ is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.
If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds… For a guy to feel like he’s a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you’re on your way into the grave.
I’ve never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.
Two things in India are religion – one is cricket, and one is movies – these are two things.
Through most of my career, I’ve made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.
I don’t know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.
Think about scary movies: There’s a fine line between horror and humor.
I thought movies were handed down by God. I knew that theater was made by people because I saw the people in front of me, but movies seemed like they were delivered, wholly made, from Zeus’s head or something.
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there’s no confusion about who’s to blame: you are.
Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It’s weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.
I didn’t want to crash into the ocean, but from watching Han Solo navigate an asteroid field to watching movies like ‘Perfect Storm,’ it would always kind of get my adrenaline up, and I knew it was something I wanted to do.
I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.
I don’t get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great.
People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don’t think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
