People come up to me and say, 'You are such a great bad guy.' The fact is that the antagonist in a movie is usually the most fun to play. You can stretch the role and do so much with it.
I think at the point when they were first starting to talk about a movie, it was a little bit different back then.
Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.
You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved.
Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.
As different as me and Sigourney look is as different as these two characters are. I'm not filling her shoes. I'm doing a part that has the same monsters, but it's a completely different movie.
Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'
Sometimes I've been more emotionally disturbed by the experience of shooting a comedy than a drama. After 'We're the Millers', I think playing this battered loser who's confidence was at zero for 90 percent of the movie, I did genuinely feel that way.
Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband, producer Charles Roven, wasn't sure I'd make it.
My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.
The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.
I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work.
I'll be playing a priest in 'Chavez Cage Of Glory,' which is a fight movie.
The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
I love to go to a movie, get a Diet Coke and a barrel of popcorn, and sit there with my kids and watch a film.
It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.
I would love to do a big-budget movie musical - I feel like there is one big musical movie a year. And I'm always there at the theater to see them - I love them.
Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.
The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.
Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
Everything I've wanted to turn into a film becomes something new and different when it becomes a movie... Each time I work with an author, I say to them, 'A book and a movie are different things.'
The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months.
All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird.
The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'
Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.
I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.
Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.
