Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.
There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.
If you tried to make a 'Game of Thrones' movie, you'd have to eliminate two-thirds of the characters, and there'd have to be one storyline, but on TV, you can really get to know the characters in a way that there just isn't time to do in a movie.
I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.
You have tremendous freedom in the young adult book world to write what you want. You can put R-rated content in a book that you can't in a similarly targeted movie.
A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.
I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.
The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.
I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.
Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.
Those three years on 'Loving' were instrumental in helping me move through the next few years of work, where it was hit or miss. I was on series that would get canceled, then I would be a movie that wouldn't come out or do as well as I hoped. You learn that you have to just keep plugging away and never take anything for granted.
A lot of the reason the Universal version of 'Heights' went away is that they were afraid they didn't have a big enough Latino star to bankroll this movie. The people I dealt with at the studio who wanted to make this movie were very passionate about it.
I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.
'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!
If you dress like a movie star, you have me.
In every movie I do have a dialogue.
In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.
What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.
Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
I'm Italian and Spanish and Jewish. I'm 100 different things meshed into one. I think that shows girls that uniqueness is beautiful. They can look at me on a magazine cover and see me in a movie and say that they have someone they can relate to.
I was in Jersey when the whole World Trade Center thing happened and I felt powerless. So, I went to Hawaii and did a surf movie. It's kind of fluffy.
Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.
When I was at USC, I did a movie with somebody, and I had a blast doing it.
Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.
Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.
When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!
'Monster Trucks' is like a big action movie.
'Sugarland Express' is a movie that I really loved and watched a lot.
When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.
Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.
I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that.
I saw the 'Wizard of Oz' recently and realized that, all my life, I thought they were real monkeys with wings. That's how scary that movie was for me.
If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?
