“In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.”
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“I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.”
“Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.”
“You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.”
“What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.”
“I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.”
“I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.”
“I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.”
“The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.”
“Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.”
“Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.”
“I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.”
“I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.”
“I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.”
“Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.”
“I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.”
“I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.”
“My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.”
“I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.”
“There's more to life than movies.”
“I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.”
“I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.”
“I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.”
“The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.”