Movie Quotes
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Die Hard 2 was okay. It was a little outside the template but it was okay, a hard movie to make technically. Did well at the box office. Successful.
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The difficulty of getting a movie made through a major studio is so extreme that when a movie comes out, everyone should give it four stars because it was accomplished.
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When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.
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It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job.
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I'm a wire-walker, but actually, I'm a moviemaker that hasn't done his first movie.
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When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
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The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.
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I always say 300 is a sci-fi movie as much as anything. It's like that could be another planet. It doesn't have to be earth necessarily. That's like when people get so wrapped up in the politics of 300 I always go, "By the way, that's a sci-fi movie. It's not really a historical film."
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There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.
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Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.
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It's really going to be total Martha Stewart saturation come this fall, ... It would very likely be a much more effective time for CBS to run this movie.
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I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that matter most to me. It's when someone comes and says, 'I will finance your movie if you cast so and so.'
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One thing I am really dying to do, while I'm still young and in shape, is an action movie. I would love to do a Lara Croft type of thing that's really physical and tough. I want to have a gun and do martial arts. I would love to get paid to get into the best shape of my life.
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When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would be, like, in Photoplay or something. We didn't hear "The Making of..." every single movie, and actors didn't have to put this tremendous piece of work that they'd done into a sound bite.
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I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.
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I feel like one thing that messed me up was living in a homophobic and transphobic society, and just being the object of mockery and disgust in your average sitcom or movie or person at school.
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I must have auditioned for this movie at least 25 times. This was a 4-month process. I have to check my sources on this but, I think I beat out Cameron Diaz's record for how many times she auditioned for "The Mask," with how many times I auditioned for this movie.
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Somehow I've been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I'm not particularly affected by trends or I'm not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I'm just sort of happy to still be around.
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I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].
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People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie.
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I love so much what I do that I spend so much time thinking about it, and then I go home, and then I'm thinking about it, so it's nice sometimes when a movie is over, and then the niggling feelings about whether you've did it right or not start to ebb away.
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I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.
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I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.
