I’ve made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.
You may have seen me in movies like ‘Fast & Furious’ and ‘Avatar.’ But I wouldn’t have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
I turned down ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Spider-Man,’ two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don’t need my ego to be reminded.
I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn’t been interested in and cultural things I hadn’t been aware of and economic factors I hadn’t thought about.
It’s a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.
I think there’s a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I’ve felt it.
Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It’s a pretty easy audience, and that’s been around for ages.
Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.
With ‘Girls’… I feel like there’s an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it’s always the imperfection I’m always more attracted to.
I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
What I don’t like are pompous, pretentious movies.
‘Daredevil’ is incredible, but I mean, ‘The Mighty Ducks’ put me in a conversation that I wasn’t in before. I feel like I owe a lot of my career to being in those movies.
I wouldn’t call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy saves my life every day.
The trouble with movies as a business is that it’s an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it’s a business.
Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.
Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge – there’s nothing like a surprise.
Inspiration for my ‘Nerdy Nummies’ videos comes from all over. Many of the ideas originate from the games, comics or movies I’m excited about. My family is really creative as well and are constantly sending me their thoughts.
I like to have a great vibe wherever I am creating. I like to have movies playing on mute – just eye candy – maybe a friend in the room, maybe a lovely young lady, someone you can use as a muse, who can give you inspiration by her essence.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.
Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It’s just a part of life.
I find Spike Jones’ movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they’re really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I’ll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
