“I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.”
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“Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.”
“My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.”
“Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.”
“When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.”
“The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.”
“I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.”
“The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.”
“All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.”
“I manage to hide in my movies.”
“Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.”
“I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.”
“I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.”
“I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.”
“I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.”
“Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.”
“I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.”
“I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.”
“When I started doing movies, every crew member was older than me.”
“When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.”
“And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.”
“All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.”
“James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.”
“I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.”