I'm a big kid I'm a kid at heart so I still love the classic family films such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake but the original. It's still one of the best movies hands down ever made and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.

As a kid I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult I really don't watch much horror to be honest.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy and we should never lose that.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

I'm terrible at horror movies by the way. I get scared so easily.

Luis Bunuel made great movies.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter different kinds of movies.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy in drama in horror movies in different kinds of movies.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years in between movies I do a retreat.

I watch movies occasionally and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I think more than writers the major influences on me have been European movies jazz and Abstract Expressionism.

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal like the 'Saw' movies.

When I go into making a movie personally I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.

When they make a woman's picture they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds but I did always have a fat round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies I couldn't look at myself.

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation and if it's someone I respect and who respects me even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

I don't like to watch my own movies - I fall asleep in my own movies.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week double features second run.

Movies are movies television is television.

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big sweeping epics like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai ' 'Legends of the Fall ' 'Blood Diamond ' 'Glory.'