I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.
I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.
I'm fed up with the idiots... the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.
I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.
Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.
Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.
You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
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 find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.
I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.
There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.
My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.
I've been on so many movies. Generally, I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago, in 'Dear John,' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in, and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed, reshoots, so on and so forth. It felt really good.
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The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.
I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.
You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.
I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
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.
Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.