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The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most.
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It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.
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If anybody is getting their ass handed to them, it's not Al Pachino. It's coming toward you. I'm psychotic.
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As you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.
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In terms of it being a first screenplay, literally, my hat is off to him Wally Pfister. I didn't see any virgin blather in screen direction, or anything like that. It was just a wonderfully executed piece, and a complicated one. The mathematics involved in putting this film together, between Jack and Wally, and the great support of Alcon, it was not a easy little operetta.
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I had never experienced anything like the response I got from people for Pirates of the Caribbean, where you meet a 75-year-old woman who had seen Pirates and somehow related to the character, and then five minutes later you meet a six-year-old who says, 'Oh, you're Captain Jack!' What a rush. What a gift. That was the challenge with Wonka, too--to be, in a sense, like Bugs Bunny. I find it magical that a three-year-old can be mesmerized by Bugs, but so can a 40-year-old or an 80-year-old. It's a great challenge to see if you can appeal to that huge an age range.
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My kids, they're my energy, my soul, and my nicest friend.
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You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
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For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?
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I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.
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Here I was going to work with Pacino thinking, "I'm not going to get lucky twice. There's no way. This guy is going to hand me my ass." He looks like the kind of guy who's going to hand you your ass. It's Al Pacino.
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The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
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I think kids, in general as an audience, are the way forward because they're not sort of sullied by intellectual expectation or this or that. It's a very pure kind of response to the work.
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Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.
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This dress code should be mandatory for most events.
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I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim Burton.
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People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.
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I'm not a great pothead or anything like that... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.
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I'd worked with Marlon Brando a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.
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I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.
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If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one...
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I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.
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Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.
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I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.