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And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.

I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.

Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child. It's now gotten very limited. They only make action movies and hard-core exploitation movies. Women get raped; men get shot.

Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportunities have come forward.

I'm not sure how much movies should entertain. I've always been more interested in movies that scar.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.