I make about two movies a year outside the ‘True Blood’ schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It’s a great position, especially for a single guy like me.
I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don’t think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
‘La La Land’ is about the city I live in. It’s about the music that I grew up playing; it’s about movies that I grew up watching. Even the big spectacle of the movie feels private to me in that way.
Whenever I have free time, I usually just sleep, play games, watch movies, see my friends, have a drink. Basically, I do whatever other people do in everyday life.
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
Movies are a director’s medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn’t do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
Sundance is weird. The movies are weird – you actually have to think about them when you watch them.
The crazy thing about ‘Hook’ was it was one of the movies in town that everybody knew about. It was the biggest film shooting in Hollywood at the time and the idea of Robin Williams playing Peter Pan really captured everybody’s imagination.
I’m like the luckiest girl in the world. I’ve gotten to be a princess, I’ve gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.
The movies saved my life. I grew up in the great depression, the only child of a pair of star crossed lovers. My father lost his job. My mother drank. They fought. The movies were my escape.
I’m a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.
Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.
Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
I had been around Bruce Willis for two straight movies, so I saw the way the paparazzi follows him and the way the public is with him. He’s a mega-star over in Europe.
The primary goal is to entertain people because… Fortunately, the kind of movies I have been doing have a certain message, they break taboos, and they are socially relevant. So it’s a great mix of content and entertainment.
When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‘Along Came Polly.’
But then, even with sex, I’m more in the school of less is more in movies.
