I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.
I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.
I like the opportunity to make films.
I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.
It's nice that we have all these different films.
I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.
There is something about the sameness people like. And what I've tried to do with all the zombie films is purposely make them different. That may be part of why it takes so long for people to see what it's intended to be.
Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network movies of the week, foreign films, independent American films, studio films, the stage.
Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.
Short films don't go too far.
In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
I love being verbal in films.
I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.
I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.
I've made a few independent films now and a few movies with Disney, and I've done TV.
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.
I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.
I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.
Most of the films that I've ever really responded to are ones that I feel were really involved in their times.
I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.
I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.
I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.
I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man.
I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize.
We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.
There's not enough black films out there. There's not enough Latin films, or films that have an Asian, Indian or Middle Eastern lead. The list goes on and on.
Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.
Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
That's a lovely starting point for me as an actor: the question of what will we - or can we - do with this lot of years with which we're blessed? More than my other films, 'The Danish Girl' is about the gigantic risks involved in being true to one's self.
There are classic horror films that, if you are a human being in this world, you have to have seen. They've become a part of our culture.
I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
