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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

Maybe when I stop making movies, I will understand my work better.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

The thing that is protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that is it.

I manage to hide in my movies.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they are constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

I did not know this about myself, but when Pirates of the Caribbean came out I realised that I did not enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I did not react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really did not know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.

Man, I love the Lord of the Rings movies. Some people would say I am weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.

I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I have probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It is been an incredible ride and I love it and I am just going to keep going and doing what I am doing.

I love scary movies. The Shining and Do not Look Now are two of the best.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I do say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I do only be in action films, but I am interested in a more varied career than that.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I do not sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I do not. There is always a good reason for doing something.