My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.
Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink of Life' was the first one I ever saw. Three pregnant women in a maternity ward and their misery - I love that. That is what I want to show at my funeral.
And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
I got really into Martin Scorsese as a teenager, so then it was kind of the whole reason I wanted to be an actor. Just like tons of young actors, I think, get freaked out by the Scorsese/DeNiro movies. I loved all his movies in the '90s, too. Then I got a part in 'The Aviator' and couldn't believe it.
I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.
He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.
I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.
I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.
I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.
On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.
You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.
Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.
I always wanted to be in movies.
The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
I'm a freak for great movies. I love movies.
I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman.
I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.
Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
I've loved vampires since I was a kid, or loved a lot of the vampire movies that I saw. Anything with sharp teeth, really. I remember you could get those fake vampire teeth, and I remember just keeping them in all the time.
All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.
I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.
I have respect for anyone who's going to go out and make a movie for a small budget and turn it into a phenomenon. God bless you. Please keep making movies. That's great. But it's not what entertains me.
The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.
