“My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.”
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“I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.”
“Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.”
“Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.”
“One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.”
“And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.”
“Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.”
“Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.”
“I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.”
“I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.”
“Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.”
“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.”
“The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.”
“When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.”
“So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.”
“I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.”
“Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.”
“I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.”
“Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.”
“If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.”
“All my movies are achingly personal.”
“I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.”
“I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.”
“Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.”