I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!
I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.
The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of people.
I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.
I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.
In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story.
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
Not all of our movies work, but we take shots, and we're able to do that because we really stick to low budgets.
More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
I grew up watching Letterman, 'Seinfeld,' 'SNL,' and Monty Python movies. But nothing made me want to get into comedy more than when 'Mr. Show' started airing.
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.
When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.
I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.
I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.
I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.
If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.
Television is going through a transformation where you're basically able to do big, long movies in television.
I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'
People are like, 'Do you watch movies?' I'm like, 'I don't care.' I've ceased caring. I can't watch that construct anymore.
When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job.
And then after a while he got me a job at the video store next door. I used to lock up the store and go next door and hang out all the time and watch movies and stuff.
We partner with movies that stand for more than the latest bestseller.
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.
But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.
Having come up in the era where movies are only movies if they're released in the theater... I don't know if that holds true anymore. I've been involved in some movies that have gone 'direct-to-video,' and that used to not be a good thing, but now it's different.
I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.
