Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.
It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.
I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.
There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie
I really unfortunately don't have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people's movies and I think that's the way to do it.
I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.
I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.
I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!
I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.
I do like to move and get physical in my movies.
I do enjoy animated movies.
And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.
The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.
I'm kind of like the goofy number-seven guy in a lot of movies.
I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers,' it can feel like you're doing three movies at once - which is tiring.
I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.
So you see, movies are really another dimension.
That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.
For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.
Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.
If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.
I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.
