“I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.”
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“Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.”
“I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.”
“My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'”
“I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.”
“I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.”
“All my good movies, nobody sees.”
“I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.”
“What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'”
“Movies are movies, television is television.”
“My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.”
“I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.”
“Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.”
“I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.”
“Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.”
“The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.”
“When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.”
“I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.”
“Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.”
“When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.”
“I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.”
“I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.”
“I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.”
“I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.”