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I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

Well, honestly, the films I personally like to go see are smaller, more character-driven pieces, so that's why the movies I've made have been smaller, more character-driven movies.

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers,' it can feel like you're doing three movies at once - which is tiring.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

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

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.