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Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He is very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he is been very successful.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

I am no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

I have been offered lots of movies. There is always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that. I do like to do something only I can do.

People feel the worst film I made was Jack. But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I have made, Jack is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

I am not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really did not want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I did not have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It is funny because I do always known that I wanted a movie career. I just did not think that I would be in the movies.

I like being in movies that have a great story. I am not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It is a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It is a unique thing to Hollywood that if you do not do that every time, then you are considered a failure. But it is like, Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

It is not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I have never quite believed actors when they say they do not watch themselves.

It is a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you are proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I am put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

I love movies that make me cry, because they are tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

I mean, why am I considered an it girl? Because I am in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here is the thing with it girl status. It is great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

It is like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They are scared, but they are not going to get hurt.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.