Find the Perfect Quote | Explore Our Curated Categories for Every Occasion

I have choreographed all of my movies.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Most of the time it is the role. Sometimes it is the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It is the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I am saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it is helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Movies such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in 1939 to Dave in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

People do not have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

I am not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

I do not know why, but I have always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

You can not work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

I like very much to do movies.

I like to direct movies, but I do not like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I have done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there is a lot of work that goes into it.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.