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I will work with a director if I think I am going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it is someone I respect and who respects me, even if they are not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

Skinniness is not your friend when you are over 40. I do like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you are either all good and saint-like, or you are all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

When they make a woman picture, they treat it like a woman picture. In the 40s, they did not treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I am upset that there is no Terminator with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

I am always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I am always working on movies and TV shows.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Violent behavior exists in one psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I do not try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

I think there is an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the Saw movies.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Luis Bunuel made great movies.

I am terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that is what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

As a kid, I liked the Halloween movies and Nightmare On Elm Street and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really do not watch much horror, to be honest.

I am a big kid, I am a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - not the remake, but the original. It is still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.