This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen I was little, I watched a lot of Disney movies - so I always imagined a big fairytale wedding as a kid. But when marriage became real, I felt an intimate wedding with close family and friends would be better.
Copy Quote View & ShareI love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.
Copy Quote View & ShareBefore I moved to the Isle of Wight, I lived in the suburbs of London and saw 'Fantasia,' and it scared the living daylights out of me. And I didn't go back to the movies until many years later to see a Lasse Hallstrom film.
Copy Quote View & ShareI am content, ambitious and equally know the need to switch off from work. My world is big enough to go beyond movies too.
Copy Quote View & ShareI always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen I realized that my big dream was going to come true - 'Night Shift' was a success, 'Splash' was a success, I got the job to do 'Cocoon' - suddenly, I was underway. And I knew my name was rising up the lists. I was going to have a career. I was going to be able to direct movies until I screwed it up.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
Copy Quote View & ShareThey wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good.
Copy Quote View & ShareI dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.
Copy Quote View & ShareFor me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture.
Copy Quote View & ShareI made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours.
Copy Quote View & ShareI would love to be producing movies, acting in more movies, and doing projects that are Oscar-worthy... have kids, be married, all that, being a normal human being as well, balancing it all out.
Copy Quote View & ShareI believe movies are showing us what we already know with aliens especially, so when we do get to meet them it's not a big shock.
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