It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars].
One of the things you have to understand with The Room, I never approached a studio to produce, because I know no one in Hollywood will produce this. I came to Hollywood and I said "I will produce this movie the way I want it. "
The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.
You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.
I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.
The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.
As far as the performance goes, I want to create an atmosphere, and use 5. 1 sound and imagery and shape and form to transform the stage from one thing to another, as if you're watching a movie.
Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.
I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.
Believe me, there is a ton of stuff we shot on Superbad that was unusable, because people were just riffing and riffing. It's just part of the Judd Apatow method, and part of the technique is to also be able to rewrite the movie again in the editing room.
I like to play unpredictable characters, and I like to be unpredictable in what movie I'll do.
Whenever I'm doing any film, there's always three different things. There's the script, which is really just a blueprint. And then, you shoot the movie and it's an entirely different experience than you would expect from reading the script. And then, there's the whole post process and the editing, and it becomes something else entirely.
Horror movie is a great date movie. For dates. . . maybe grab on to the guy. I just think people love a good scare.
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
I think a lot of people have a vision of L. A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.
Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie.
