I've been on so many movies. Generally I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago in 'Dear John ' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed reshoots so on and so forth. It felt really good.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

I was a total athlete. I loved sports but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete I realized I wanted to be in movies.

I don't generally do movies that get good reviews.

There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go and don't really establish a growing fan base.

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time you have no desire to see them in movies.

Well it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000 when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.

If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb it's kind of what these movies are all about.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies to tell you the truth.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies and Marlene Dietrich Marilyn Monroe.

I love going to movies.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies I'll watch almost everything.

Before I'd written movies I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

Even if we die at 100 we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

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 for one am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.