The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

I'm sticking to what I've always said, either the right movie gets made or no movie gets made.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

It's kind of hard coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie.

If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

My favourite movie of all-time is 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.' I love Kate Winslet.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

One of the scariest moments was being on Tyler Perry's first movie, 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman.'

If you're a big Hollywood star, you make one movie a year at the most. I can make five in Europe.

'The Exorcist' is one of the finest movies ever made, and it just so happens to be a scary movie.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

I am really indoors-y. I am a video game and movie buff, and this keeps me in my little boy cave.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality.

I like 'Notting Hill.' If you can do a movie that's simple, but do it well, there's room for that.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

I have been considerably picky for somebody who's not a movie star, and sometimes I get frustrated.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

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