Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. For me, it's 'The Cricket in Times Square', written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams.
I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.
Everyone looks at our films and thinks that we are somehow able to make movie after movie that does well and is entertaining, but there's an enormous amount of work that goes on under the hood and an enormous number of mistakes that are made along the way.
Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.
I think all movie love scenes are hard because you can't truly be as intimate as you would be with anyone you're truly with, and everyone's watching you.
I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.
You want the actor to be happy with the movie. You really want the actor to think they did a good job and all that.
Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
If I was to direct a movie about a super-confident guy, first of all I would hate that character. I can do a super-confident guy who crashes and burns and has to rebuild himself as somebody humble. But a super-confident guy that just gets more confident and gets the girl and the money and more success? That's not interesting.
I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.
Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
Somebody's upset with every movie.
I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.
I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.
If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.
Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.
I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.
But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Australia on the plane and I thought it was my mum and it was Woody Allen just checking to see if I wanted to be in his movie.
I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.
I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.
I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.
I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge.
The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.
'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.
When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.
When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.
The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making.
And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.
I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.
