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I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

I really do not like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

With the CGI, suddenly there is a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You do not need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That is something that is consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that is a soulless enterprise. It is all kinetics without emotion.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

Yes, I am going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

I kinda see my current position like this: Here is your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before Chuck Woolery rings the bell.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

You are basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they are sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you are responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.

My movies are unadorned, they are not particularly fancy, I think they are kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.

I knew I had to get out of Boston and stop making movies there, at least for one movie, otherwise no one would ever consider me for a movie that took place south of Providence.

I have never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

You do not go to the movies to do historical research, unless it is historical research about the movies.

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It is difficult when you are used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I am upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I have worked with are pretty great.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I am not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

I just love movies, so suddenly, you are political about movies, and that is dark. It is just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.