Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.
I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.
I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.
I got my MFA from AFI as a director in 2010. I've had time to make the shorts that I made previous to 'Hereditary' and to kind of build these movies in my head.
I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.
I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.
I always say horror films are great date movies. In the first twenty minutes, you're going to end up in each other's arms.
Having done movies in Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi, I have been accepted both in North and down South. I don't believe in divisions. I like to believe that I am working in the Indian film industry.
I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.
Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?
I mainly listen to the music that's playing during movies. It can be the theme to 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' 'The Equalizer,' stuff like that. I like the blend of orchestra with modern instrumentation. It's something that I've wanted to do.
Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.
I do tend to like movies that challenge me professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it's all about the acting and not the camera.
I think in Israel there is so much talent in the TV world because there's less movies done.
I watch lots of movies, both English and Hindi.
I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.
The primary goal is to entertain people because... Fortunately, the kind of movies I have been doing have a certain message, they break taboos, and they are socially relevant. So it's a great mix of content and entertainment.
As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.
To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial hair. I had put on all this weight for these movies, and I did four or five of them back-to-back. Then I cut the weight and I got fit again. I cut my beard and I took away the mustache, and people were like, 'What are you doing?'
I really like suspenseful movies and movies that make you think.
Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
My favourite movies are 'Jawbreaker' and 'Heathers.'
If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go.
As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.
Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.
In truth, I've never been a big superhero fan. I don't mind some of the movies, and a couple of the cartoons were alright - that Batman series from the early nineties where Mark Hamill voiced the Joker is sweetness. But largely, I've not really had much time for superheroes.
There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
I never intended or planned on making a YouTube Channel. I always thought that it was meant for Bollywood movies, trailers, and songs.
People have made sure of that, that you can't shock anybody anymore. It's not just because of movies and TV. It's because of what's happening in the world.
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Las Vegas, New Mexico has had a lot of great movies shot there.
I collect movies. So I have all those in binders. I don't have the DVDs out. I put them in binders.
One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.
I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?
If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.
Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience.
The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.