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I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can not tell what you are going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and do not be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I am lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there is no need to be greedy.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it Does not have to be a creature.

I hope to make movies that are so small they do not need to make anything to be profitable.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I have also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

I do not see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

I feel like I am a fighter. I have fought my whole life to get to where I am at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

I really unfortunately do not have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people's movies and I think that is the way to do it.

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I am still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I have got kids and family and friends, and I do not like bad things. I do not think they are funny, and it is irresponsible to make movies that do not show you how that is not good.

I am a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I am not doing anything at night, I am usually watching a movie or two.

I think there is a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I have felt it.

I have always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.

But in the back of my mind I have always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it is done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it.