“I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?”
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“The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.”
“It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.”
“I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.”
“I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.”
“I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.”
“Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.”
“I like movies I can relate to.”
“I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.”
“There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.”
“Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.”
“I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies really twisted.”
“I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.”
“It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.”
“The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.”
“Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.”
“I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.”
“I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.”
“I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.”
“It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.”
“Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.”
“You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.”
“The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.”
“Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.”