I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

I think you get better as you get older.

I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

I work with a lot of movie stars.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.

When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.

I'm just a storyteller.

I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. Were always on the side of the animal being chased.

The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.

There's a clean simplicity to the plotting of 'Sinister,' whether you like it or not. And the scares are deliberate and even heavy-handed in a way. There's not a lot of sophistication or nuance in the plotting and not much restraint in the scares - and that's a part of what makes the movie accessible.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go.

The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.

I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months.

Home nowadays is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.

In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

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.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.

I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized.