“I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.”
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“Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.”
“Luis Bunuel made great movies.”
“I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.”
“Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.”
“One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.”
“As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.”
“I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.”
“I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.”
“I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.”
“In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'”
“I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.”
“And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.”
“I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.”
“I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.”
“I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.”
“I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.”
“If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.”
“I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.”
“I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.”
“So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.”
“The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.”
“Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.”
“I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.”