A lot of my favorite movies come from nuggets of truth.
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.
I used to go to two movies every week for the Saturday matinee when I was a kid.
When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.
I can't wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert 'Terminator 2' to 3D more than I want anything in the world.
I like movies that challenge people to recognize different things.
There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there.
I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person.
I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.
I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.
Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.
One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.
It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.
It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.
In Bollywood, on an average, movies are made in six months or a year, but Puri completed 'Loafer' in two months.
I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.
I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.
I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.
I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it's always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.
I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
Filmmaking is not about gender. You cannot ask a president in a festival like Cannes to have, like, five movies directed by women and five by men.
