And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his.
I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those.
I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.
I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years - since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, 'Hercules' was one of the movies that I - not chased, because I didn't have the power to chase anything - but always had in the back of my mind.
I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.
I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it's the greatest thing in the world - even when it's passionately against the title - because it's going to start a conversation.
The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.
I look up to actors. I look up to Robert DeNiro, I look up to Johnny Depp, I look up to Al Pacino, I look up to run-of-the-mill really good actors. I love watching movies, and I love watching other actors and learning from them.
Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.
I don't care about movies. I tend to play badminton once a week.
When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems - like prejudice and desegregation, for instance - that we face in our everyday lives.
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering, 'When do I put my arm around her?'
The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.
Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.
The Asian culture has to be a part of what we see on TV and in movies.
I've done some movies before when you have months, or three weeks at least, to train and to learn choreography.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Those movies sure got me into a rut.
I'm so bad at dancing that I've actually been in two movies where the director of the film saw me dancing and thought it was so funny that in one movie they had me do it as the mental dancing of a real simple person. The other one was, like, to-be-laughed-at dancing. That's how bad my dancing is.
The dynamic range of the digital camera is pretty crappy compared to film, but now film is not great because the labs have closed. It's going to hurt a lot of the movies that we did in this gap because I think they are going to look very old very soon.
There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.
I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!
In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.
Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.
Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.
I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.
We used to watch the muscle movies on Saturday matinees, such as 'Hercules Unchained.' Then we'd go outside and do a remake of it.
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
I'd seen all of John Hughes's movies. All the Spielberg stuff. A bunch of '80s horror, like 'Evil Dead.'
Scary movies, for me, I used to be insanely scared of.
The movies I was scared by at three or four are now some of my favorite movies of all time.
I wanted to do something in film. I wanted to make my own movies. Something clicked in my brain, like, 'Oh, I can physically act! I can go on open casting calls and audition for something.'
I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was - I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
I want my music in movies.
I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.
I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.
Film lovers are sick people.
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.