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Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

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.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.

The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.

I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

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 never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing.

I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.