There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.

We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.

Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.

And I love shooting football.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

I was a disinterested student.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

Its a bad day when you dont get the work done that you need to get done or you dont get it done to the satisfaction.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

We're gonna try and bring on all the different aspects of horror movie making and bring on guests and show all these old '50's B movies. Not the real corny ones, the real cool ones.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.