I had admired the way the producers of the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise had found David Yates, who ended up doing their four final movies, and he’d come from television.
I do love horror movies, but I’m not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group.
I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.
After watching ‘Dangal,’ I called my writer and told him that I wanted to do a sports film for Punjab because no sports movies have been ever made in Punjab.
As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.
I want more movies like ‘Straight Outta Compton.’ Showing our stories of triumph, we’ll make it through, and we’ll get to something better.
You’re always told in Canadian movies to make it look like the U.S. and people buy into the idea that that’s the only way it’ll work.
Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
I consciously decided not to be a ‘London’ actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
I hate horror movies, with a passion.
Working on movies and TV is a blast, and ILM has the most talented people in the world. But on ‘Mythbusters’ I’ve been able to go places I would never have access to otherwise.
Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn’t that suck?
I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, ‘His Girl Friday’ and ‘Bringing Up Baby’, those old movies.
I like horror movies that have a degree of coziness to them.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
I spent a lot of time alone when I was a kid, I climbed trees, hopped creek beds, read, watched movies, I’d make stories, make films.
There’s room for Spike Lee’s movies; there’s room for Tyler Perry’s movies. There’s room for classics with an all black cast. There’s room for all of it as long as we don’t try to make any one piece define us as a race.
I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early ‘80s.
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He’s very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he’s been very successful.
I was planning to study more, but it’s a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
Put the hero back in the super hero movies, because I think ‘super’ might have taken over.
‘Sunset Boulevard’ – the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair – is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
For every person that says, ‘I love your work, and my daughter thinks you’re great, and we watch all your movies,’ and is very kind, there are 10 more that are like, ‘Who are you? What’s your name? Are you on ‘House of Cards’?’
For me, I always loved summer movies. I love indie movies, foreign films, but there’s definitely a part of me that loves summer movies, ever since I was a kid.
