“Well, Toronto, I consider to be the birthplace of my films. I've made three films and this is the third one to premiere here in the same theater on the same day at the same time - they are my audience. They're the people that I think about while I'm writing, directing, and editing. I specifically make movies for them.”
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“I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.”
“There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters what happens to them is not lifelike.”
“You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.”
“What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.”
“The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incredible actor, and he had a lot of charisma. Handsome, action, you know, everything was there. I loved Bruce Lee.”
“I play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.”
“I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.”
“But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.”
“I remember looking through magazines or watching movies even just a couple of years ago and being like, 'I really want to be part of that,' but not realizing what that was.”
“A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.”
“I've always wanted to make movies.”
“I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.”
“I want to make timeless movies.”
“When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.”
“Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.”
“I've done many different movies in many different contexts.”
“Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.”
“I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.”
“There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.”
“I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.”
“The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.”
“It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.”
“I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.”