“I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it!”
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“I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.”
“It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?”
“It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.”
“You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.”
“So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.”
“I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.”
“In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.”
“Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.”
“I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.”
“I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.”
“I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.”
“Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.”
“I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.”
“I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.”
“I've seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it.”
“I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.”
“Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.”
“Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.”
“I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.”
“It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.”
“If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.”
“Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.”
“I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters.”