Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.
Everybody’s a filmmaker today.
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people’s maps will be the same.
I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw ‘Doctor Zhivago’ every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
You won’t find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don’t speak to me. People don’t come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I’m this dark, twisted, miserable person.
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
We are the movies and the movies are us.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they’re sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Everyone told me to pass on ‘Speed’ because it was a ‘bus movie.’
And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They’re a lot of fun, they’re sexy, they’re manipulative, they’re dangerous.
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it’s one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
Everything makes me nervous – except making films.
Film spectators are quiet vampires.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.
