I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.
Clearly, audiences are very accepting of A-list talent both giving them what they want - Tom Hanks is the most classic example - and then going on, from time to time, to do things that are unexpected. That's part of what makes people want to go to the movies and not just sit home.
I'm gonna see 'Mission Impossible' Part 9 because I like Tom Cruise movies! But just because the box office has that one receipt from the ticket I purchased, doesn't mean it represents someone who liked it.
I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids.
I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.
I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.
I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.
I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.
Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.
Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.
I don't like movies that are morally simple.
I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.
[David Milch] had say, "You have to understand that our history of western movies, what we've been doing in westerns since the movies began to talk, you had audiences that would be offended by certain things, and there was a cleaning-up of the way people spoke. "
For me, in movies, it's always a mixed bag. I've never made a movie where I thought, "You were really good in that movie; you were good all the time. " No. It's always, "You didn't get it, you didn't do it in that scene, but the other scene is pretty good. " So I just hope that in balance there's more good scenes than not.
I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.
I make movies for money, exclusively for money.