“I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.”
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“What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.”
“I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair, because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean, it's true.”
“Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.”
“I was always attracted to science fiction movies.”
“I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.”
“Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.”
“It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.”
“Why should you have to atone for making big movies?”
“In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.”
“I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.”
“I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.”
“John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.”
“Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.”
“You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.”
“The movies were custard compared to politics.”
“I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.”
“I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.”
“I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'”
“I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.”
“All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.”
“People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.”
“For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.”
“A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.”