I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that you know.

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer and I was you know going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married stay married fall in love how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

Movies are movies and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared but they're not going to get hurt.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say I still love going to the movies but I don't sneak in anymore.

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

By going to the movies and because of other things too going to college making a wide variety of friends moving around traveling I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

To me movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

I love the movies and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me and I spent a year or a year and a half of my life working on it.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

If you're going through hell keep going.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests private interests.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening and going once a day to beg for food.

I get up every morning and it's going to be a great day. You never know when it's going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.