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I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

I never expect anything; I just go make a movie. I do the best I can, and whatever happens, happens.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke and if I go out to a movie I like to watch things that are moral.

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie.

My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

Economy, speed, nervousness, and desperation produce the final wasteful, semi-incoherent movies we see.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

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