Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint..

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative..

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at..

I was amazed at the rosy glow that can be around one when youre in a film thats done well..

Africa is to be pitied, worshipped or dominated.

History is absolutely my thing..

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the c….

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right..

When you are in love- everything is romantic.

It always seems that the generation below you is getting worse, which is why I had the worst character in the film Adulthood that said it. I don't re….

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right..

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg..

I love film. I'm a movie buff. So it really does pique my interest. For me, it all kinda bleeds together. The music, dance, the film, the cinematic e….

I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor..

Keep it weird. They'll get it later..

Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see..

You can't possibly be right for everything..

The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment..

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you..

That's the main thing you have to have... trust..

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there..