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I did not know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

I just want to keep doing what I am doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I have asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That is really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

I like to think the movies that I have picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I was not going to be a real parent if I did not quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I do made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you are in, it is a great compliment.

The thing about the UK is we do not really make that many great movies.

It is something I never dreamed I do be doing, making movies.

Jet was very busy. I have been inspired by a lot of his movies.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I do not blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

Movies are different from real life.

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you are always you.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

There is an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it is really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it is all art.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.