Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There’s a movie theater.

I don’t walk around like I’m a movie star because I don’t think of myself as a movie star. People usually don’t even notice me.

I guess what’s most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don’t seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere… like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.

Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.

To die would be an awfully big adventure.

[When asked about his thoughts on gods]I think it’s like a movie that was way too popular. It’s a story that’s been told too many times and just doesn’t mean anything. Man lived on the...

It’s like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it’s going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have...

It doesn’t matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie’s not entertaining, if the story’s not entertaining.

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back. There are some things that time...

Look, sometimes it’s OK with girls like this, they wanna have fun, and sometimes it’s not because they’ve got a broken wing and they’re hurt and they’re an easy target. In this case, this particular...

We didn’t come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

I also couldn’t pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted...

Leave a movie audience inspired, and they will want to ingrain that movie into their lives with the toys, branded food products, soundtracks, and clothing they buy.

Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

It comes in pints?

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.

A lot of times I think people, when they’re doing a movie that’s a family movie, they’re worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I’m Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Some might not know that ‘What’s Happening’ was the television version of ‘Cooly High.’ When I went on the audition, it was an audition for exactly that: the TV version of the movie.

I wouldn’t say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world...

‘The Graduate’ must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn’t ever get from a score.

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

Father Brendan Flynn: “A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew – I know none of you have ever done this. That night, she had a dream: a great...

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

That’s fine with me. I like the process of making movies.

All of the movies brought the war into it,

I wanted to write something from a child’s viewpoint… Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was...

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week ‘Burlesque’ was green lit – a movie for Disney called ‘Mash-Up’, about a high school marching band.

Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it...

I started writing ‘Leaves Of Grass’ when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I...

Theory is like a book.It’s full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It’s like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the...

I don’t know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be...

Eli: I walk by faith, not by sight.

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to...

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Too many movie stars in here

Izzi: Remember Moses Morales? Tom Verde: Who? Izzi: The Mayan guide I told you about. Tom Verde: From your trip. Izzi: Yeah. The last night I was with him, he told me about his father,...

I think we’re tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series after seeing the movie they might be disappointed. That there was, you know, that they might have some...

You can either be a movie star or an actor. I’m an actor.

I still don’t know much about directing a movie.

It doesn’t do any good to say, ‘This is what it means.’ When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.

I haven’t done too many big American movies, really, have I? Well, I’ve a couple, I suppose. I certainly haven’t done as many as I could have done.

I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed ‘The Birdcage’ came out to see me on stage when I did ‘Forum.’ It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn’t familiar with...