I have never read a review for anything I have ever done, be it for theater or movies, just because. I am really good about that. And YouTube comments. People will hide behind that.
I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel.
I've done two movies with Jim Mickle. He's somebody that I'd love to do another movie with.
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
I hate Danny Kaye movies.
I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.
Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.
Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.
I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.
My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing comedy. I've always liked doing music. I like acting. And apparently, you need those things in movies.
Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.
I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back.
I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies.
Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD and watched it over a month or so and it's great. It's like reading a novel. It has a lot of possibilities that are more difficult to accomplish with a film.
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.
Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
The best movies are simple.
Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies.
My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.
What I've always loved are movies like 'When Harry Met Sally'... and 'The Sure Thing.'
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.
I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.
