“I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.”
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“My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.”
“De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.”
“I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.”
“I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.”
“I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.”
“The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.”
“My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.”
“My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.”
“I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.”
“Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.”
“I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.”
“I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.”
“There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.”
“I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.”
“Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.”
“I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.”
“Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.”
“My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.”
“I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.”
“I love going to movies.”
“I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.”
“You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.”
“If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.”