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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I do go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

It is never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the Grapes of Wrath, his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He did not have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I have realized I can not operate at that level of intensity. That is okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

I rarely see one of the summer blockbuster movies. I do like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

I was watching Up In The Air and I thought, Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy? And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it is starting to show.

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I will be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

I am fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

I am a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.

I have played a lot of mothers in my movies.

There really are three types of religious movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I have ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.