ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

The movie that’s had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I’m in the ocean, I’m hearing that music.

RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses...

I’ve actually always wanted to be able to read people’s minds. My sister did a movie with super-powers and that’s the one I would have wanted, so I really lucked out. The negative is that...

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a ’70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.

Are Christians too stupid that we can’t write a script, we can’t film a movie OR we don’t know how to act?

I’ve never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I’ve been to Los Angeles on my hands. I’ve never made a movie there and I’ve never been there for working reasons. The...

I don’t know if ‘Crash’ is a good movie or not because I didn’t set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment.

Turning one’s novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It’s out there alive somewhere. It’s not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act...

You know, movies are often made by tying up the hamburger rights and rubber-doll rights before the script is even approved.

‘Superbad’ was such a personal movie.

I always thought that we would be that couple in the movies but not all movies have a happy ending

I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, ‘Dial M for Murder,’ and he shot almost all of that movie in one room. There was a genius in what Hitchcock did by manipulating things in...

Mind you, Roman Holiday – which is kind of a romantic comedy – is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.

The production team’s first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration.

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

In addition, I’m finishing a track for the movie ‘Waking Up In Reno’, but there are numerous other singers I look forward to recording with in the near future.

The first Disney movie I saw I think was ‘Snow White.’ I loved all the Disney princess movies.

What the hell did I do in the 80’s? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

It was the kind of scream that would be in a horror movie right before someone got chopped up into little bitty pieces.

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person’s life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience’s attention.

You know, they just don’t make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it’s sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the...

You think what I’m doing is cruel, sadistic, but it isn’t… you aren’t even a real person, you don’t understand.”Alecto said nothing back to her.The television screen faded to black and Mandy just sat there...

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on...

Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the...

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right...

It’s always weird when you see a movie, and there’s no reason for someone to, like, jump on stage and be a singer, and then they just do that… But if it came organically, I...

are a sordid, low-budget French film. The sort you’d stumble across on TV at night. You know you’ll regret it in the morning, but you keep watching anyway.

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

I’ve never read for a movie, I’ve always been given them.

I was watching TV one day, and there was this open casting call for extras, and my brother says, ‘You wanna try out for this movie?’ and I said, ‘No, I’m okay.’ And then he...

‘Love Aaj Kal’ is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.

I did a movie called ‘The Savages’ with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed me in a different role from what I played on ‘The Wire.’ It...

……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how...

And as a filmmaker, I’m trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don’t believe that.

Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.

It’s really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don’t have as much responsibility when you’re acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility,...

A sketch is just a mini movie.

We feel in many cases we’re going to get a better response to some of our movies in Europe, or outside of the United States, than in the United States.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said ‘the ugly girl’.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

I’ve done a lot of work other than sci-fi, and between half-hour comedy, stage, and various movie roles, I’ve really tried to avoid being typecast.

The proliferation of the chain theater has made it tough for independent historic theaters to book first-run movies and stay economically viable,

In the beginning, all I wanted to do was to be a singer and a dancer. That was my real groove, my real interest. When it came to doing films, my biggest goal was to...

I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.